A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite.
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless – and absolutely essential.
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she’s a certified Freudian.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.
Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
My Westley will come for me.
Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
Is this a kissing book?
Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid – that had to mean something.
Fezzik’s in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.