Urbinati Quotes & Sayings

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper. — Rob Urbinati

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time. — Rob Urbinati

20I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. — Anonymous

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry. — Gayle Forman

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible. — Oswald Chambers

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. — Rob Urbinati

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth. — Michael Kroger

I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s. — Rob Urbinati

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. — Mike Leigh

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. — Constantin Stanislavski

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial. — Rob Urbinati

I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most. — Rob Urbinati

I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters. — Rob Urbinati