26 Quotes by Bryan Burrough

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.