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“Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.”

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Amy Holden Jones

Amy Holden Jones, born in 1955, is an accomplished American screenwriter known for her profound character development and engaging storytelling. more

“In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change.”

Ifs Needs Writing Doe Ideas Stories Film Order Stars Quality Creative Directors Hollywood Folks Productions Various Studios Relative Sensibility Hierarchy Screenwriters

Author:Terry Rossio

“The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.”

Writing Has Beens Trade Slave Best Things Boss Ownership Screenwriters

Author:Anthony Minghella

“If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up.”

Ifs Way Writing Whole Jobs Games Waiting Concerned Down And Crafts Gigs Screenwriters

Author:Robert Mark Kamen

“Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.”

May Mean Wealth Liberty Excellent Anarchy Leisure

Book:The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...

Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...

“Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.”

Doe Government Position Constitution Anarchy Default

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.”

Men Government Today Wish Land Subjects Taxes Majority Our Time Anarchy Enslavement

Book:Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata

Source: Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata

“Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.”

Ifs States Running Law Difficult Impossible Anarchy

Author:Aristotle

“I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper except in an ordered society, and revolution becomes sooner or later the new order. Viruses have not failed to follow the general law. They are strict parasites which, born of disorder, have created a very remarkable new order to ensure their own perpetuation.”

Today Law Order Born Revolution Responsible Remarkable Disorder Anarchy Sooner Or Later Strict Viruses Presenting Parasites

Author:Andre Michel Lwoff

“Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.”

Men Mind Stills Source Weakness Anarchy Heresy

Book:Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

“We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.”

Long Can Do Anarchy Heresy Unimportant