- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think it's really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020