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)
“Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that...”
– Roy Blount Jr. (via planb-becomeapirate)
“I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk,...”
– Errol Morris (via rosieate)
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts...”
– Charles Bukowski (via infinitelxve)
wolf-cub:
HD porn is so clear that you can actually see how disappointed their parents are
“Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so...”
– Maya Angelou (via planb-becomeapirate)
“Writing advice can very well be just another distraction. It can be a waste of...”
– Chuck Wendig (via planb-becomeapirate)
But sometimes i love not writing…..
“We are all pessimists, cynics, hypochondriacs and conspiracy theorists. In our...”
– Chuck Wendig on writers (via get-scribbling)
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via yourwritemind)
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– MARK TWAIN via AdviceToWriters.com (via sondriawrites)
“Practice, practice, practice writing. Writing is a craft that requires both...”
– Jeffrey A. Carver (via therealkdgreen)
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious, you might never come...”
– From Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. (via danielledavisreadsandwrites)
truth
filmslatemagazine:
“If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.” Daryl F. Zanuck
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– Woody Allen (via unicornopia)
“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid...”
–
Kurt Vonnegut (via AdviceToWriters)
“Either marry your work – take it seriously and do it every day – or date it –...”
– Anonymous (via therealkdgreen)
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
– Miguel de Cervantes (via therealkdgreen)
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is complete...”
– Roald Dahl (via emmyangua)
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Richard Wright, American Hunger (via yourwritemind)
“All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your...”
– MaryJanice Davidson (via planb-becomeapirate)
“For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a...”
– Robin McKinley (via pixelpaperyarn)
BOY: The Film →
adambhalalough:
Yes! I was in the Sundance lab with Taika when he was working on this script - go see it! Support!
brettgelman:
I saw one of the best films I’ve seen in quite a while this weekend.
It’s written and directed by Taika Waititi.
If you want to see a truly brilliant film you should go see it.
Taika and his producing partners are distributing it themselves, even though it got 3...
“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”
– Audre Lourde - American Poet
Notes: This is so true. Within the core of all film stories there are similiar elements and the trick is to tell the story in a new fresh way. Sounds easy, right?
(via beerosie)
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John Carter
20. John Carter
So my kids went to the Lorax - I went to John Carter. Its long - 132 minutes. So its a bit of a commitment - but nowhere on the level of a Titanic or Avatar. And it really isn’t on par with either of those films either.
It is what it is. I was prepared for it to suck - and it didn’t. I wasn’t horrible. A bit silly. A bit sappy. A bit slow. A bit...
more truth:
filmslatemagazine:
“Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It’s about as simple as that.” James L. Brooks film
“You can’t say, I won’t write today because that excuse will extend into several...”
– Dorothy C. Fontana (via therealkdgreen)
“Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today — explode — fly...”
– Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, 7. (via danscribing)
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Lamott may have popularized the idea, but as Solomon noted, there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1.9)
“I’ll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1....”
– O. Henry (via moltenart)
“The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are...”
– Rachel Bloom (via therealkdgreen)
Ouch.
filmslatemagazine:
“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” Anonymous film screenwriting filmmaking
