“If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsI CanIdeasWould BeNightGuyCan DoKnownPagesMy FriendsMarkPartnersSaturdayClueAlrightClicksSaturday NightSpadesSaturday Night Live Author:Adam Sandler
“Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?” WritingTwoBookIdeasEnoughUseCan DoImaginationAnswersHalfWeekExercisePaperPagesMarkCome UpSillyMusclesGood EnoughSheetsWriting A Book Author:Amy Sedaris
“If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!” IfsTryingCan DoHurtHellMonthsTenPagesIt HurtsYou Can Do ItScreenplays Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.” PeopleMovingCultureCan DoRocksPagesGuitarPopsJimmy Author:Johnny Marr
“You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanDoneShowsJobsUsedNightCan DoSawsStreetsTalentPagesEdgesCornersTonightDesksBuddyOne NightBronxStreet Corners Author:Regis Philbin
“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.” FeelsWritingCharacterFeelingsCertainCan DoAcceptingSawsStyleReaderPagesMediumsFlip Author:Daniel Clowes
“From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.” TryingCan DoWrittenHonorPagesOriginalsCuriosityInvestigation Author:Colin Farrell
“When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.” KnowsWayWritingI CanWholeCharacterStoriesHappensCertainCan DoDecisionNumbersCuttingPossibilityPagesScriptsBunchFasterMaking DecisionsCutting Off Author:Steven Zaillian
“Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.” HardCan DoPagesToughEach DayBlankEditingAll AloneTrenchesBlank Pages Author:Sarah Dessen
“I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.” FeelsLooksStillsI CanEnoughMovingSongBlackCan DoWhiteAliveFieldsPagesStructureSoldierAgendasBlack And WhiteAvant Garde Author:Scott Walker
“There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can't do, what they're good at and what they're not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast.” ThinkingWayWritingCharacterShowsCertainActorsVoiceCan DoRealizingTvsFitLessonsPagesMouthsCastsProductionsEpisodesTv Shows Author:Ronald D. Moore
“I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.” MomentsCan DoInternetComputerPagesAddressesDisturbingWebsiteBrowsers Author:Edward Snowden
“It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.” BelieveHardEnoughRememberWaterCan DoOne ThingOughtSafePagesCleanListsEndlessAdministrationAbortionAmendmentsFourthYou Can Do ItRestoringKentuckyMinersClean WaterFourth AmendmentSlag Author:Sara Paretsky
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.” I CanShowsSufferingBitsSidesCan DoSleepQualityHabitPagesBackgroundsThanksCoinsBad HabitsMemorization Author:Sherri Saum
“Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.” IfsThinkingWayWritingKindI CanCan DoEffortGoes OnPagesDelightScreenplays Author:Daniel Clowes
“I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesSaidI CanBookAgeUsedFunCan DoHeardKingsMetsPagesPicksInspiredComicParksContributionCentsComic BookDrsLutherCan Do SomethingRosaMontgomeryFunny Book Author:John Lewis
“Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.” GuyCan DoPaperPagesTricksDigital Author:Declan Shalvey
“Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.” WritingSometimesHandsCan DoPagesExcitingBlankBlank Pages Author:Gerard Way
“I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.” WritingBookChoicesCan DoTalkingWrittenPagesManageLive LifeYou Can Do It Author:Alice Mattison
“You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.” IfsThinkingShouldI CanFeelingsReadingCan DoPagesScriptsI Can Do It Author:Molly Shannon
“Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.” IfsWellsCan DoPagesDialogueSoap Author:Alec Baldwin
“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsWellsI CanAgePastUsedCan DoNovelWrittenLuckyApproachPagesOld Age Author:Alice Munro