“I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.” WritingSometimesWonder Author:Hampton Fancher
“Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.” WritingArchitectureBeach Author:Hampton Fancher
“It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.” WritingGreat WritersHuxley Author:Hampton Fancher
“I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.” WritingMeanTeaching Author:Hampton Fancher
“I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.” PeopleWorldWritingLongRealImpossibleStupidRidiculousMake SenseDelusionReal WorldEmbarrassedClue Author:Hampton Fancher