#rip

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. ↗

— Tim Roth

#attached #by the time #close #come #credits

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#inevitably #integrity #lack #trip #up

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#four #glows #hand #i #love

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#comes #funny #grabs #i #me

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #always #baseball #designed #family

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#descriptions #few #first #girl #i

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#created #early #films #football #had

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#copy #gaza #guide #had #i