Hollywood Masala

Speaking of writers, I get a daily quote about/by/from screenwriters/writers.

My favorites?

"You really don't fully understand your own script until about
two weeks after the movie opens."
– David Koepp

"Screenplays have this expectation of rhythm and rhyme,
so to speak, and meter and structure, the same as a sonnet."
– Sherman Alexie

More below!

Ciao!
Nikhil K
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Visit the official site for INDIAN COWBOY : A New Romantic Comedy
Link: http://www.IndianCowboy.com

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"Some American writers who have known each other for years
have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
– James Thurber

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation
of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control
the people who must use the words."
– Philip K. *** (poss. mature language)

"There's only one way to tell the amateurs from the professionals.
Professionals get paid for writing. Amateurs give it away."
– Harlan Ellison

"You have a lot of power. Until you hand in that script."
– Peter Seaman

"When you're rewriting, you have to respect the writer who broke
the page. If it wasn't for that, you wouldn't be doing those rewrites.
A blank page, that's the toughest thing in the world."
– Bob Brummer

"In TV, you always get paid. TV was always the best business.
But every TV writer has a screenplay in his drawer."
– Garry Marshall

"Someone told me that there are two kinds of writers. There's the
ones who write until they can't find a word, and then they sit around
for two days until they get the right word. And, there's the kind who
will leave a blank and go back and fill it in. I leave a blank. I will
sometimes write a page or two and make a note, 'Better stuff than this.'"
– John Sayles

"I'm not really that clever, so when I find something that is
really apparent to me, I concentrate and fixate on it."
– Eduardo Sanchez

"I think the unique role of the screenwriter is that until everyone else
comes on board the movie, you serve every function. You're all
the actors, the director, the editor, and you're also the studio
marketing maven."
– John August


Ciao!
Nikhil K
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Visit the official site for INDIAN COWBOY : A New Romantic Comedy
Link: http://www.IndianCowboy.com

What is Indian cow boy about.

>What is Indian cow boy about.

Its an animated film about two indian cows, who are confused about their identity, and connect on that level, falling in love at first sight. But when their strict traditional parents object to the union, they give up on their relationship, choosing to elope instead with their friendly neighborhood cowherd. The only problem is that they don't have a greencard to go to the US, and so they just decide to find a party, and dance all night. They meet on the dancefloor, and fall in love again, and after uncermoniously dumping the hapless cowherds, they get back together and live happily ever after.

I'm expecting to win an Oscar (atleast one, could be more) for it.

Ciao!
Nikhil K
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Visit the official site for INDIAN COWBOY : A New Romantic Comedy
Link: http://www.IndianCowboy.com

"The only thing anyone cares about is what's on the page."
– Leslie Dixon, when asked if gender is a consideration
in getting hired as a screenwriter

Ciao!
Nikhil K
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Visit the official site for INDIAN COWBOY : A New Romantic Comedy
Link: http://www.IndianCowboy.com

"Work with the creative people collaboratively. If you find the story
you're telling isn't the one they're telling -- get off the train. But before
that ever happens, talk with everybody -- get things out in the open."
– Joan Tewkesbury

"I never figure it out too much. I feel like, as you're writing, you just
find your way… I imagine different scenarios based on the things I was
thinking about."
– Sofia Coppola

"At one point when I was writing Minority Report, there was this
horrible rainy season, and outside my window they were doing
construction. There was pounding, and the building was literally shaking
every 15 seconds, and that damn beeping sound trucks make when
they back up, and there were guys yelling at each other. It was
a mess. As if that wasn't bad enough, my office sprung a leak. So
it's raining inside my office, there's this pounding noise outside, and
I was still able to write. That's how I knew I had it -- I could still write
with all this *** happening around me."
– Scott Frank

"Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one
of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite
hasn't quite done it."
– Michael Crichton

"Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place
to hide out from hard truth."
– Jay Cocks

"Sometimes the hardest thing to do is be obvious, because that's
not your impulse. Your impulse is to be more artful. You're trying to
find a clever, elegant solution to a dramatic problem when probably
the best thing to do is just have the guy say what's on his mind."
– James Cameron

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so
that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
– Socrates

"You can't be in a place where you're trying to justify the nature of
the violence. The anthropological argument is that violence in film
ritualizes it -- by putting in on the stage it's out of ordinary life.
But in the end, you can't lie to your kids. You have to try to create
a framework where witnessing real, unstructured violence illuminated
your child's understanding of the human condition."
– David Self

"I wrote the scene that is considered the worst scene in the movie,
the animal cracker scene. The good news is that I made a ton of money,
and they blame it on Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams."
– Scott Rosenberg, on Armageddon

"I always like taking someone's world and rocking it, and then seeing how
they get through this maze that their new life has become."
– David Ayer

"I think true science fiction is a story that shows our contemporary world
in a new light by presenting it in an alternative reality."
– Vincenzo Natali

"I have this thing I call the 'trickle up' theory, which is, you find some small
microcosm that represents the thing you are really interested in on a
human level, and you try to hit people in their hearts and their emotions,
and then you hope it will trickle up and they'll think about it with their heads."
– Naomi Foner