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“Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots.”
― The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe
― The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe
“If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out”
― I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out”
― I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
“In essence we are pure desire. That desire is an expression of a moment and that moment becomes a series of moments we call life.
Suspended on the hands of an evanescent ticking. Pending on the beat of a vein woven drum. Fragile and fleeting. Ever mysterious and expanding.
My outer life was full. My inner life was like rampant Boston ivy and aspects of my soul were more akin to cities than archetypes.
Deluged with words and pulses, in poetry I am but the result of all those who came before me. I represent more than I am able to comprehend.
My expression is the result of all those who slain me and all those who heal me. Thank you differently and the same, for the hues of my emotional palette only deepened and multiplied like the cells of some thousand galaxies.
Pent, it was time for my expression to vent.”
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Suspended on the hands of an evanescent ticking. Pending on the beat of a vein woven drum. Fragile and fleeting. Ever mysterious and expanding.
My outer life was full. My inner life was like rampant Boston ivy and aspects of my soul were more akin to cities than archetypes.
Deluged with words and pulses, in poetry I am but the result of all those who came before me. I represent more than I am able to comprehend.
My expression is the result of all those who slain me and all those who heal me. Thank you differently and the same, for the hues of my emotional palette only deepened and multiplied like the cells of some thousand galaxies.
Pent, it was time for my expression to vent.”
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“What I’ve never understood is why the boys are always shocked when they get their first glance of their newly made-up date, as if the girls weren’t already beautiful despite their penchant for androgynous clothing. Do
screenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?”
― What to Say Next
screenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?”
― What to Say Next
“You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.'
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
“I love screenwriting. It's simple and mathematical, yet it has the beauty of science and chemistry, the wonder of mystery, and the love of a wild heart.”
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“When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.”
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“The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.”
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“There is magic in the old and magic in the new. The trick is to successfully combine the two.”
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“A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.”
― The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
― The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
“The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie.
Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell.
But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script.”
― Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell.
But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script.”
― Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
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