No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
