I know guys. I know the way they think.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The writer has lost the race right from the gate. Months - sometimes years - are lost trying to elevate a film idea that by its nature probably had no hope of ever becoming a movie.
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1. ) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2. ) Trying is no longer fun.
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.