Ephron Screenwriter Quotes & Sayings

And Quirk's a captain now," he said.
"Captain Quirk?"
The motorcycle cop grinned.
"Captain Quirk," he said. — Robert B. Parker

Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was — Texas Bix Bender

The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
is one of the main reasons I read;
but it doesn't happen every time
or even every other time,
and when it does happen,
I am truly beside myself.
— Nora Ephron

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career. — Nora Ephron

It's like I'm living inside a mirror. I see things, I do things, but they are just surfaces and nothing more. — Elizabeth Scott

My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all. — William Clay Ford Jr.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable. — Beth Moore

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?' - because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.' — Nora Ephron

I kiss his forehead. "You are a wimpy idiot. But ... I still love you."
"I love you too, Woods. — Miranda Kenneally

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. — Bob Proctor

What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[ ... ] 'How many lives Richard?'[ ... ]'One.'. — Richard Bach

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Fear never scaled one mountain, never stepped up on a stage, never accepted a challenge, never tilled new ground, never walked in a race; he never even dared to dream. Fear failed to slay a single dragon. Remember this before you choose to keep his company. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense — Ravi Zacharias

Bajaj, like Birla, a convert to Gandhian principles, raised social issues that most members of the community found unpalatable: inter-caste marriage, expressing concern over the extravagance of marriage celebrations, arguing against the practice of financial speculation, condemning child marriage and asking Marwari women to give up their traditional dress and jewellery. — Akshaya Mukul

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet. — Eckhart Tolle

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds. — Tupac Shakur