76 Quotes by James Lipton

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

A good day’s writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I’ve written okay, or as well as I can write, that’s a day well spent.

Comedians don’t laugh. They’re too busy analyzing why it’s funny or not.

I think that anybody’s craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Geniuses always think it’s easier than we make it out to be.

They change. They’re different. There are no two alike, that’s the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

There’s only one man I’ve called a coward, and that’s Brian Doyle-Murray.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year’s, Thanksgiving sometimes – two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.