I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
This life came so close to never happening...
I am aware that I am aware.
Those words you want to say right now? Don’t say them.′ He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. ‘And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life’.
She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss.
Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it’s the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can’t make the music his own.
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.