Scafaria Lorene Quotes & Sayings

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it. — Lorene Scafaria

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it. — Lorene Scafaria

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home? — Lorene Scafaria

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A. — Lorene Scafaria

Routine is part of coping. — Lorene Scafaria

Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner. — Anne Lamott

Don't compromise when you're right. — Lorene Scafaria

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it. — Lorene Scafaria

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact' ... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending. — Lorene Scafaria

Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you. — Cormac McCarthy

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time. — Lorene Scafaria

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. — Lorene Scafaria

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon ... smart too late. — Mike Tyson

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows. — Orrin Woodward

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. — Lorene Scafaria

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities. — Lorene Scafaria

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow. — Lorene Scafaria

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit. — Lorene Scafaria

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway. — Lorene Scafaria

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you. — Lorene Scafaria

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them. — Lorene Scafaria

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters. — Lorene Scafaria

Want me to flex my magic for you, baby? — Sarah Rees Brennan

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong. — Lorene Scafaria

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that. — Lorene Scafaria

Real love doesn't disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won't ever turn into indifference." She — L.J. Shen

Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing? — Lorene Scafaria

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go. — Lorene Scafaria

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general. — Lorene Scafaria

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity ... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time. — Lorene Scafaria