“I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.” Quote by Danny Strong
“I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.” PeopleThinkingWriting Author:Danny Strong
“I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."” WritingOkay Author:Danny Strong
“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."” WritingMiracleLast Time Author:Danny Strong
“I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.” MenTogetherMotherGirlDaughterMadMother DaughterMad Men Author:Danny Strong
“Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.” WritingMind Author:Danny Strong
“Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.” WritingLongKidsChristianMy FavoriteUnbelievablePlaywright Author:Danny Strong
“The best advice is essentially that thing in the back of your mind that you really aren't sure of, and when you start to hear other people bring up the same concerns, you say, "Okay, let's address that."” PeopleMindAdviceConcernOkayBest Advice Author:Paul Schrader
“Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H” DifferentCommunicationPhotograph Author:Paul Schrader
“When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.” ThinkingWorryPrivacyNeighborhoodCell Phone Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“What keeps me up late at night, in the sense of worry, I guess it's innovation. It's funny to be worried about it, because it's a fair point that wow, look at the innovation we've seen over the past, not just 30 years, but over the past two years.” PastNightWorryInnovationWorriedOver The Past Author:Jonathan Zittrain