“A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.” WantLooksEyeAliveWrittenFrontsLike YouStandingGravesBeside YouI Am Alive Author:Khalil Gibran
“The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.” JobsWrittenLike YouEnglandCustomersSarcasticFedsDepressingScreenplaysWaiterFed UpWaitressSurly Author:Ricky Gervais
“For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.” ThinkingWayWritingKindDifferentDoneAudienceWrittenLike YouDisciplineLike Yourself Author:Louis Menand
“When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in LA, where it feels like you walk into a coffee shop and you see 15 laptops with screenplays being written.” FeelsWalksComedyWrittenTvsLike YouCoffeeShopsHanging OutPerformersScreenplaysLaptopsCoffee Shop Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."” WritingBookIdeasHandsCausesStuffProcessWrittenAdviceLike YouComputerPagesStartingHillsBlankWriting A BookDumpBlank PagesGaimanStarting To Write Author:Gerard Way
“If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsKindArtistSongActorsWrittenPaintingLike YouPerformingBizarre Author:Lola Kirke
“I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?” PeopleMenTryingKindMeanCountrySeemsSufferingPoorWrittenLike YouEasierSolutionsConcernedFellowsClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingElitesOther CountriesAbstractionPoor PeopleNicholas Kristof Author:Tucker Carlson
“One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."” WellsLooksMadeI CanRememberFilmFallAsksLinesCareersWrittenCarLike YouSceneLaughterOkayCaughtAsk MeLook UpCaught UpMechanicFalling DownFixingSquirrelsHigh Points Author:John Ratzenberger
“I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.” IfsMenShouldWritingHumansSaidIdeasCharacterTurnsGirlHuman BeingsBoysWrittenLike YouShould HaveCreditNo Idea Author:Karla Souza