Clara Mamet Quotes
Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.
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Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.
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A liberal is one who says that it's all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a pornographic movie as long as she gets paid the minimum wage.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
