- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.
- Gold Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I would do it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020