53 Quotes by John Patrick Shanley

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?