“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.” WritingIdeasJobsFilmGuyClassHeardTaughtConversationOfficeTablesFortuneVariousChineseSatRestaurantsGrantsMicrophonesDay JobsBartenderShort Films Author:David O. Russell
“There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.” WritingPersonsI CanWholeDiesReaderNotionAverageSatDetectivesNotebookHomicide Author:David Simon
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.” WritingKindTogetherLiteratureFictionFiguresFootballPlanetsConversationWineScience FictionSatHotelBottlesGet TogetherFiction WritersBalconiesBottles Of WineBlowing Up Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.” IfsWayWritingMayWould BeWiseDown AndScriptsSatBeing WiseFlattered Author:Morgan Freeman
“I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.” GivingWritingTryingTodaySongDown AndStuckSatTape Author:Jules Shear