Motivational Screenwriting Quotes & Sayings

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation. — Juan Williams

Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down. — Rebecca Godfrey

This is the cycle of a dynamic society. Equality is never a final state, democracy never a stable equilibrium: they are processes, they are struggles. Our task is now to recognize that that struggle is ours. — Christopher L. Hayes

I'm not a competitive person. — Chris Elliott

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. — Shirley Maclaine

It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions. — Conor McPherson

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that ... But it's what I meant. — Mary Eva Swatek

The Creator seeks to save the lost souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. — Alan Kay

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. — Tomie DePaola

For you cannot conquer evil with evil, just as you cannot put out fire by fire, but only by water. — John Of Kronstadt

Selfishness is the root of every sin. — Anonymous