236 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

Screenwriting you don’t necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It’s more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.

Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed – although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.

We have always been a family of fighters and spectators. Intervening with reason and consideration demonstrates a dangerous cultural ignorance.

Time doesn’t heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.

The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it’s too late to apply to yourself.

But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.

I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.