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Quote by Bruce Joel Rubin

“Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.”

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Bruce Joel Rubin, born on March 10, 1943, is an accomplished American screenwriter known for his work in both film and television. His scripts are renowned for their profound emotional depth and philosophical insights. more

“When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'”

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Author:Bruce Joel Rubin

“I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'”

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Author:Bruce Joel Rubin

“I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.”

People Thinking Writing Comedy Terrible Sense Of Humor

Author:Whit Stillman

“One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.”

Unique Hollywood Meetings Enthusiastic

Author:Mark Leyner

“I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.”

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Author:Whit Stillman

“I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.”

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Author:Amy Adams

“I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

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