399 Quotes About Hollywood

LEGACY IS THE AFTERLIFE ON EARTH

Power does not ask permission.Power does not take permission.Power does not need permission.

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.

It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

In prose, when you wrote something, it's symphonic… There's something ethereal in that process that's euphoric.

The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.

There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.

As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.