Showing posts with label Quotables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotables. Show all posts

29 April 2011

The Badassness of Edward Norton


He gets green when he's angry. He's a magician. He punched cholera in the ear (and bagged Naomi Watts). He's a reformed Neo-Nazi. He's Jack's smirking revenge.

And as you can see in the video up there, he can spit a hate-fuelled, all-encompassing, epiphany-causing, self-deconstructing rant with the best of 'em.

01 August 2010

Words

"Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" - Nam Le
And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes days, for the surface of a river to freeze over—to hold in its skin a perfect and crystalline world—and how that world could be shattered by a small stone dropped like a single syllable.
Read the full thing here

I wanna write like this guy, but with a moustache or an impressive beard.

13 July 2010

I write more on this blog than on my Major Work.


Robert McKee: Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life! And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!
Charlie Kaufman: Okay, thanks. 

The last movie I watched featured writer's block. The last short story I read also featured writer's block. I have writer's block.