There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
Bob: That ain't no Hank Williams song!
William Wallace: It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom.
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
