#rip

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#document #exciting #feel #know #legal

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#center #i #life #original #out

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#conversation #each #i #like #non-stop

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#book #description #dialogue #first #flip

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#ground #his #lost #married #ripley

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. ↗

— Arthur Hiller

#gotten #had #her #howard #involvement

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#been #book #eight #figures #five

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ↗

— Lucretius

#dripping #hollows #out #stone

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#chair #covered #doctor #done #face