Surnow Quotes & Sayings

You have to live a life to become a writer. — Joel Surnow

The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch. — Babe Ruth

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene. — Joel Surnow

A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do. — Joel Surnow

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it. — Joel Surnow

And what do you do in times of crisis, Gin?" Grayson asked. I stared at him. "I survive. — Jennifer Estep

I'll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I'll live there without you. — Coco J. Ginger

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast. — Joel Surnow

Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains
barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate. — Frederik Pohl

I need to live in new shoes and not be a dancer. — Heather Watts

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. — Donald Knuth

I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea. — Joel Surnow

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

Who pleases one against his will. — William Congreve

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on. — Bob Boughner

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is. — Javier Cercas