“I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.” WritingMadeEasySuccessfulPagesCome UpMade ItBlankBlank PagesRambo Author:Dolph Lundgren
“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
“I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.” IfsWayWholeStoriesGoalFrontsPagesCome UpNewspapersStorytellingUnusual Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.” ThinkingFeelsTryingSometimesFeelingsJobsDesireResultsWrittenInspirePoetProjectsPagesDrawsCome UpScreensFilmmakerViewersIntrigueIneffableGood Authors Author:Guy Maddin
“Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.” PeopleHumansDifferentSometimesRememberSongLinesHuman BeingsPagesResponseCome Up Author:Craig Finn
“You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.” WayNeedsMomentsHelpingActorsBehindsFiveWonderfulTearsTomorrowScenePagesCome UpCoachesAmazedCastingBehind YouGreat Actors Author:Courtney B. Vance
“When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.” FallTheoryProvePaperPagesFalling In LoveSimplicityCome UpDetailsCracksSheetsPencilsEleganceProve ItSimplicity And ElegancePaper And Pencil Author:Michio Kaku
“I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.” ThinkingBookMightWould BeReadingLosesPagesCome UpKneesPleasantNecksTouchedTouch Me Book:At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel Source: At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel