#blueprint

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#building #built #finished #finished product #likely

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#directors #experience #give #had #i

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#blueprint #genetic #guys #love #sports

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin. ↗

— David Graeber

#blueprint #capitalism #centralization #planning #social-change

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. ↗

— Gary Numan

#across #blueprint #i #stumbled #them

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. ↗

— Little Richard

#blueprint #guided #had #i #idea

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#constitution #freedom #opportunity #our #plans

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#lose #scenes #script #shooting #whole