“Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.” IfsTryingBelieveI BelieveStuffWrittenOne ThingHeardCrazyHonestlyShirtsShirt Off Author:Taylor Lautner
“I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.” LooksMeanHateStuffWrittenI Hate Author:J. J. Abrams
“I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.” SongStuffFantasyWritten Author:Don McLean
“Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.” MenWayStuffWrittenPlausible Author:Amy Clampitt
“I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.” PeopleWantedStuffDealsRecordsWrittenStyleOffersSongwritersPackagesHoustonWhitney Author:Lukas Haas
“It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.” PeopleSongStuffCompanyWrittenBad Company Author:Mick Ralphs
“Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.” ThinkingWritingPastStarsStuffWrittenPressureAll TimeScreenplaysGreat Writers Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsBookWarDoneFeelingsHomeAgeThreeStuffWrittenDogBrotherTypePleaseRight NowCatArmyNineOld AgeWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IHomelessEightyFeels RightNine YearsDischargeTypingIndianapolisWhere Home Is Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.” WantStuffWrittenBad Stuff Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!” ThinkingDoeIdeasStoriesStuffLinesDealsWrittenMinesMythologyDevelopingChamberBad IdeasHash Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensWarCareValuesFunStuffInterestHurtDarkPayWrittenBabySceneNewsMurderPressesDollarsDon't CarePostsCivil WarLots Of MoneyGood NewsGrossNicheVintageSellersYuck Author:Ransom Riggs
“I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.” ThinkingWellsHappensCoursesCausesStuffWrittenMagicMaterialsSticksStuff HappensThespians Author:Regina Hall
“The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot and coincidentally we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.” PersonsRunningStuffPartyWrittenRegretMilesGood FriendI RegretPhoto Shoots Author:Nile Rodgers
“Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.” IfsTryingHas BeensStuffWrittenCrazyHonestlyShirt Off Author:Taylor Lautner
“There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.” KnowsWayMatterDoneStuffPayAttentionAudienceWrittenNegativeCritics Author:Eddie Murphy
“No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.” ThinkingFeelsWellsPersonsMadeMatterPlayWholeCharacterAbleFilmIndividualStuffPowerfulRolesWrittenHonestNo Matter WhatAll KindsWell WrittenReally Powerful Author:Ellen Page
“Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.” MadeStuffProcessWrittenSeriesPilots Author:Jason Lee
“I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.” IfsKnowsStuffMy OwnWrittenHeardBunchEdification Author:Billy Joel
“There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.” PeopleLooksStoriesStuffWrittenFieldsHorrorVery GoodHorror Stories Author:Stephen King
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.” TryingBigsRunningStuffMy OwnWrittenDirectorsHorseTownsProducersGigs Author:Mike White
“I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongHardSeemsArtistStuffKnow HowWrittenBenefitsConcernedArgumentCriticalBarsIsolatedFeedback Author:Brice Marden
“There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?” IfsWritingYearsBelieveLongI CanWarAgeStuffViewsWrittenHonestFieldsSeriousInternetStandingHolesBeing HonestThese DaysGenreFlamesSignificanceCategoriesSci FiEstablishmentMainstreamShelvesBricksTagFadingPigeonsBookshopsMortarBricks And Mortar Author:Charles Stross
“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.” IfsThinkingWritingImportantHardAbleSongStuffWrittenSingingRelate Author:Cody Simpson
“Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.” ThinkingWritingMindMeanYoungStuffWrittenReadyAmountRidiculousFasterThrowingBe YouYoung WritersThrowing Away Author:Josh Lieb
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingHeartArtistSongTurnsStuffBitsRecordsWrittenTreeModernLove YouWindColdMy HeartMusic IsOkayAssBrokeBrownLove Each OtherSigningWigsHeart BrokeBlowing ItModern Music Author:Frank Zappa
“I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.” PastSongStuffWrittenWorriedTripe Author:Bernard Fanning
“I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here. It's about all the hidden messages and meetings in this and the fact that it is about women and the fact that this cave is full of blood and all this kind of stuff. And when I was making it, I didn't make it with that specifically in mind, but I always had it in the back of mind and I thought, 'Let's just throw it in there and see what people make of it.' And people seem to be making quite a lot of it. So I don't want to spell it out or say this, that or the other.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantMindKindBookWholeFactsSeemsStuffWrittenBloodMessagesMeetingsSpellsCavesHidden Messages Author:Neil Marshall
“If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.” IfsWould BeFilmStuffWrittenTvsSeventiesEightyEdgy Author:Jonathan Banks
“I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.” FirstsLastsFilmStuffTermWrittenEnjoyedLast DayFilm SetRodeo Author:Dan Mazer
“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.” FirstsSongStuffWrittenHappenedHugeDrugFirst TimeMusicalUsualCriedAddictTabooDrug AddictPreview Author:Boy George
“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."” IfsSometimesPlayUseMightStuffBitsPiecesWrittenMaterialsSceneBlowVersionsEditsJoshBits And PiecesWild ThingsWeird StuffMight Use Author:Josh Gad
“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.” WorldTwoRealSometimesBigsThreeStuffFantasyWrittenNormalSeriesFishesShyMortalityReal WorldTwo WorldsFantasy WorldsBig Fish Author:John August
“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.” ThinkingStuffWrittenComic Author:Demetri Martin
“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.” PeopleNeedsTryingFilmReadingStuffToo MuchFocusWrittenCrazyHavensReadyMoonAskingPressesShootingDawnMapsEclipseEmilyNew MoonBreaking DawnEmily's Author:Tinsel Korey
“I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.” TwoActionFilmThreeStuffCuttingWrittenAverageProducers Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.” CountryCharacterStoriesSongStuffWrittenDriven Author:Dolly Parton
“The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.” Has BeensStuffWrittenCrossesCatholicBest ThingsReformationTheresa Author:Timothy Keller
“Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time I've used any outside songs at all; until now it's only been stuff that I've written. This is also the first album of mine that's had any co-writes on it, as well. It's a big step, coming off of anything we've ever done before.” WritingFirstsWellsDoneBigsTogetherUsedSongStuffStepsWrittenHavensMinesProjectsFirst TimeAlbumsScrap Author:Curtis Grimes
“One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.” WritingIdeasRunningSongStuffDifficultNiceWrittenDependsBandNice Things Author:Dean Wareham