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“To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“Josh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a written scene isn't working quite right, I'll tell him that we've got it and that he can just play. He'll blow us away with some super weird stuff and some wild things that we might use bits and pieces of in the edit, and then I'll say, "Just for good measure, let's do one more of the scripted version."”

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Author:Josh Gad

“People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.”

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Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.”

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Author:Jane Espenson

“Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, it was just a Hail Mary to Tim, and Tim said that he wanted to do it and I was like, "That's fantastic!" But, there wasn't a lot of collaboration because he knew what he wanted to do and just did it. There were very minor changes for Big Fish.”

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Author:John August

“I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's a pretty good track record, but it's not 100%. It is frustrating that, as a screenwriter, I've seen all those movies and they don't exist in the real world. They're juts inside my head and on those pages.”

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Author:John August

“I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes three worlds, where you have a normal world and a fantasy world that mix and overlap. I never shy away from the series stuff in the real world. Big Fish is about mortality.”

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Author:John August

“Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.”

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Author:Josh Lawson

“In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.”

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Author:Nina Jacobson

“Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.”

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Author:Jared Harris

“Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.”

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Author:Billy Campbell

“Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.”

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Author:Mick Garris

“I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.”

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Author:William Monahan

“Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.”

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Author:William Monahan

“The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been . floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.”

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Author:Craig Brewer

“I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.”

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Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.”

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Author:John Warnock

“By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.”

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Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.”

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Author:Eva Green

“It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.”

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Author:Victoria Woodhull

“For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.”

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Author:Michael Rostovtzeff

“That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.”

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Book:Scribble scribble: notes on the media

Source: Scribble scribble: notes on the media

“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.”

“Everything that`s written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don`t think there`s anything I can do to stop it.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.”

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Author:Bob Newhart

“I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just to kinda flush it out there and put it on a page. And I started to do this, and I had an epiphany. I'll share this with you: a suicide note that is written by somebody that is not suicidal is called an autobiography. I am on Chapter 58.”

“The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.”

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Author:Igor Levit

“I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.”

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Author:Tamsin Egerton

“I've written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn't concerned when I wrote them who would see them and how those movies would especially affect young people.”

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Author:Chris Hayes

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