A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. |
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. |
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. |
From the first page of the book...[Roosevelt's] life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn, ... We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest. |
From the first page of the book...[Roosevelt's] life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn. We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest. |
His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn. |
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in. |
I'm very happy that the movie resides in the affectionate embrace of so many people. I just feel lucky and proud to have been associated with it. |
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. |
Star Trek |
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. |
We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, near-sighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest, |
We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest. |