Cullen Bunn Quotes

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • You
  • Cutting

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movie
  • Brand
  • Remarkable

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

  

  Adam Green
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Movie

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Movie
  • You
  • Criticism

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • Attention
  • Purpose
  • Pleasure

• I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Book
  • Author
  • Salesman

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Book

• I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • World
  • Movie
  • Proud

• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Book
  • Again
  • Classic

• Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Science
  • Purpose

• There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • People
  • Time
  • Support

• I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Science
  • Forever
  • Study

• At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Time
  • Graduation

• You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Purpose