Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something written, I can constantly change stuff, which means I can get a scene absolutely perfect, and then when we go to shoot it, the requirements of the shot mean it would be useful to extend the dialogue or take a line out or swap things around. So the camera doesn't serve the action. The action serves the camera. That's important. So it becomes more and more organic and integrated.
If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a dime off any of them. Recount was the first thing I sold, and I actually sold it as a pitch to HBO. They bought it as a pitch, which was a miracle. I thought, "Wow, this could be the last time I'll be paid to write a script again, which would be too bad because that was an amazing experience I just had. "
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.
If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.
No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.
Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.