Burton Silverman Quotes
I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I don't do meetings.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
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My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.
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I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
