May 2012
17 posts
“In general, though, there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, 51. (via danscribing)
“It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in...”
– Stephen King (via therealkdgreen)
“For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a...”
– Robin McKinley (via therealkdgreen)
“How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real...”
– Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, 5. (via danscribing)
“In any case, the bottom line is that if you want to write, you get to, but you...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, 31-32. (via danscribing)
“A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the...”
– David Fincher (via electricfeeler)
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner (via danscribing)
“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew...”
– Edgar Rice Burroughs (via planb-becomeapirate)
“Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to...”
– Richard Peck (via therealkdgreen)
“Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don’t write them...”
– W. B. Kinsella (via therealkdgreen)
April 2012
26 posts
“Every single day I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how...”
– John Green (x)
“Do it everyday for awhile,” my father kept saying. “Do it as you would do scales...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, xxii. (via danscribing)
6 tags
Movies
(Avengers was 29)
30. Detention
Saw this at a Q&A screening with Joseph Khan - the director. He paid for this out of his own pocket. Don’t think anyone is going to see it. It played like it was shooting for something between Heathers and Scream - but fell short of both. Loved how it was shot - but it just seemed overly complex and rushed. He’s a music video guy - but the...
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than...”
– Robert Frost (via vidaversicolor)
“With writing, we have second chances.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via kayhol)
“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not...”
– Louis L’Amour (via therealkdgreen)
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via sirmitchell)
DeNiro on Digital:
I’ll tell you what I know about digital. There’s the RED camera which you don’t have to reload all the time, so that saves time. You don’t have to sit around for every 10-minute film magazine, so it goes much faster. You can do take after take without wasting time. Certain filmmakers like to work fast and feel the momentum, and the actors also, everybody gets into it and...
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak...”
– Natalia Goldberg
(via thecivilvoice)
“I don’t think that writers or painters or film-makers function because they have...”
– Director Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999)
(via criterioncorner)
2 tags
Avengers
So I got into a fan only screening in San Diego for the Avengers yesterday. The LA screening was full in minutes - and I quickly scanned for the next closest one and it was in SD.
2 hours away.
But it was the Avengers. The only trick with these screenings is getting in. And here in LA if you go to a free screening - you need to be there at least 2 hours early. Wasn’t sure how it...
8 tags
movies
24. War Horse
Beautiful film to look at. Mostly boring to watch. Felt like it was all filmed on a stage.
25. Jack and Jill
Silly. Stupid. Silly. I laughed a few times - and was slightly charmed by Adam Sandler as a woman. But what a crazy film. Best part - Norm MacDonald clinging to a light in the men’s room.
26. Puss in Boots
Not a whole lot of fun to be had in this film. Did...
“Everything in the world is trying to distract you from getting something on the...”
– Jim Behrle @ The Awl (via moltenart)
“I’ve got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those...”
– MaryJanice Davidson (via planb-becomeapirate)
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Ben Franklin (via jumpinafterme)
“I wake up, shower, have a coffee, watch telly, go to town, buy some food, potter...”
– Russel T. Davies - the Writer’s Tale (via pinkand-yellow)
Writing Quote of the Day
theblackheartpoetess:
“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”~ Mark Twain
March 2012
60 posts
5 tags
movies
21. 21 Jump Street.
How funny that the 21st movie I saw this year was a movie with 21 in the title… Ok - not that funny… but the movie was. Really enjoyed this one. I was a fan of the series back in the day…. and thought the movie was really funny. Tatum Channing was the real revelation here… the guy is seriously funny. Laughed a lot - even when the plot became...
“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing...”
– Julian Barnes (via moltenart)
3 tags
writing vs directing
“It’s not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn’t.” - Guy Ritchie
“In the end we only regret those ideas and actions that we rejected, the chances...”
– Arla Aabba (via arts-humanities-politics)
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside...”
– (via thewritingdorkette)
“Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today — explode — fly...”
– Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, 7. (via danscribing)