The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of cou... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way. SWAMI RAMDAS Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success a... LUDWIG VON MISES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The mistake would be to think that Bush is a stupid man or somehow not responsible for his own actio... DANIEL SULLIVAN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has mor... STEPHEN REA The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and al... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man must grow up as his own person and shape his own character in order to identify his destinatio... SUNDAY ADELAJA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and ab... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the who... ROLAND JOFFE Bill wanted the camera to be another character in the film. He wanted dynamic, exciting shots to put... DENNIS BERARDI If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to... TANA FRENCH If we were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren’t... KERSTIN GIER There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way... IDRIS ELBA Hong Kong comic actor and director Stephen Chow said Tuesday he'll start filming the sequel to his a... STEPHEN CHOW But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in fron... DENNIS COOPER Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t... CHARLES DE GAULLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ... EDWARD ABBEY As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. ... BONG JOON-HO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. BRYCE COURTENAY I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywo... DUDLEY NICHOLS I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the ... BRET EASTON ELLIS February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre dire... AKIRA KUROSAWA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little b... PAUL KLEE One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit... PAUL KLEE Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when no... GARY OLDMAN The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the peopl... CRISS JAMI In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going t... TAYLOR HACKFORD Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... TOM STOPPARD The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives... GARTH DAVIS We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't sta... JOHN THAW When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yours... WILLIAM COLLINS I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great c... WILLIAM REYNOLDS It's an honor to close the festival with a feature-length film made by a participant in the Student ... ETHAN VAN THILLO In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the ... DONNIE YEN A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all
actions shooting at his own praise o... THOMAS FULLER A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at leas... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesse... KINGSLEY GEORGE The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o... THEODOR ADORNO The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi... ROALD DAHL A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film,... MIKE FIGGIS The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict... MARIA MONTESSORI In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adher... KARL KRAUS Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most ... ERICH FROMM I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera... EDDIE REDMAYNE He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corpo... KAGE BAKER 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director wh... MELISSA DE SOUSA The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If h... MANUEL PUIG A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good ... KAJOL I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstanc... WILLIAM HAZLITT We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will mo... JORGE LUIS BORGES Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it wil... JORGE LUIS BORGES Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ... PAULO COELHO Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? RAND PAUL What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own ... SOGYAL RINPOCHE A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be... JOHN STUART MILL One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... GEORG GRODDECK I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ... WALKER PERCY The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to ... ISAAC D'ISRAELI At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer. ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he... SUZANNE COLLINS The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa... ROALD DAHL The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and... BERT WILLIAMS A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls. JULIA JOANNE BLACK Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he want... ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wan... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car cha... JASON STATHAM There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut... OSCAR WILDE Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film ... JAMES BROLIN If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film... BRAD DOURIF In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ERIC HOFFER
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THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON