445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

When war comes, some flee with great alarm while others step forth and quietly seek directions to the battle.

If someone threatens you for telling a joke, that's all the more reason to tell it. Humour is the perfect antidote to fanaticism.

The cellphone barometer is my method of judging audience engagement with a movie in a cinema. The number and frequency of phones lighting up the dark auditorium (or lack of them) tells you if the film is working or not.

When writing a novel, the only real constraint is how far you want to go with your ideas. With movie scripts, you have time and budgetary constraints. For example, if your screenplay is set entirely at night, you've just doubled the cost of the movie. Novels can indulge all five senses, but Film is a visual medium that usurps the novelist's tool of narration through voice-over to add depth and perspective.

The first line of a novel is the pinhead upon which the great structure will stand or fall.

Sticks and StonesI dreamt a fossil came to lifeand told a tale of his former wifeDid she beat him? Where?She broke his fingers on the stairsAnd tore out lumps of his orange hairHow could she?Then she gave him pride of placeAt an archaeological feast in his honourA prehistoric horse was the main course!© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.

There are moments when disappointment comes to seek your soul as musicians do with notes, and the more these are wide and deep, the more a single word or gesture is enough to make music resonate within you that you would never want to hear.

Never become an adult! They're stressed-out, miserable creatures.

Whether it's personal foibles or a bureaucrat's ego, the stubborn defence of stupidity is unforgivable.