- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book Quotes
Why books work the way they do.
This page highlights what books can do that film can't, including slower pacing and quiet stretches, alongside a reminder that some things simply translate poorly to screen. For a companion collection, see Books.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
- Book Tour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020