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Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else to do. I didn't know what music I would write. I just did work for other people - arranging, producing, writing - and all of that seemed to be in L.A.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
- Essential Elements
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
- Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020