Goldsman Quotes & Sayings

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers. — Akiva Goldsman

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV. — Akiva Goldsman

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed. — Lisa Kleypas

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows. — Akiva Goldsman

As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better. — Akiva Goldsman

It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it. — Charlize Theron

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel ... — Mary Shelley

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great. — Akiva Goldsman

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling." — Akiva Goldsman

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice. — Vance Joy

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ... — Harold Laski

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.' — Akiva Goldsman

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. — Akiva Goldsman

He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to kid around with the press and (be surly), but he was a total professional. I see why he is a Hall of Famer. I am just glad I had the pleasure of playing for Eddie (Murray) for one year. — Gary Carter

What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something ... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right.' Now it is only when we understand what he means by this modest little word 'right' that we begin to understand what artists are really after. — Ernst Gombrich

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it. — Akiva Goldsman

Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise. — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Whatever age we are is the age we've always been. — Graydon Carter

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it. — Akiva Goldsman

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create. — Akiva Goldsman

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant. — Akiva Goldsman

And the monkey flips the switch. — Akiva Goldsman

I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it. — Walter Isaacson

In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights. — Chris Lowell

We all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable, when you can organize things in such a way that a tiny miracle appears to have taken place and that love has once again turn out to be bigger than fear and death and blindness. — Anne Lamott