Script Writing Movie Quotes

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

All worries are less with wine.

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that’s where you want to be. Disappointment’ s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life – friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Great losses are great lessons.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

Make my life my favorite movie. Live my favorite character. Write my own script. Direct my own story. Be my biography. Make my own documentary on me. Non-fiction, live, not recorded. Time to catch that hero I've been chasing. See if the sun will melt the wax that holds my wings or if the heat is just a mirage. Live my legacy now. Quit acting like me. Be me.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

I would love to say that I wrote (Good Will Hunting). Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault." I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tends to do that with therapists. (from 2003 WGA seminar)

KAUFMAN Sir, what if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don't change, they don't have any epiphanies. They struggle and are frustrated and nothing is resolved. More a reflection of the real world — MCKEE The real world? KAUFMAN Yes, sir. MCKEE The real fucking world? First of all, you write a screenplay without Conflict or Crisis, you'll bore your audience to tears. Secondly: 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 makes 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! KAUFMAN Okay, thanks.

It is always healthy to be honest.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

He was an old Drag man with his bit getting short. He was the first to attempt to teach me to control my emotions. He would say, “Always remember whether you be sucker or hustler in the world out there, you’ve got that vital edge if you can iron-clad your feelings. I picture the human mind as a movie screen. If you’re a dopey sucker, you’ll just sit and watch all kinds of mindwrecking, damn fool movies on that screen.” He said. “Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.” His rundown of his screen theory saved my sanity many years later. He was a twisted wise man and one day when he wasn’t looking, a movie flashed on the screen. The title was “Death For an Old Con.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially successful screenplays share, he has codified a language that has been adopted by creative executives in both film and television. So there might be something of tangible value to be gained by interacting with his material, either in book form or at one of the seminars. But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar is no seminar at all. To me, the writer wants to get as many outside voices OUT of his/her head as possible. Experts win by getting us to be dependent on their view of the world. They win when they get to frame the discussion, when they get to tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to think about the game, whatever the game is. Because that makes you dependent on them. If they have the secret rules, then you need them if you want to get ahead. The truth is, you don’t. If you love and want to make movies about issues of social import, get your hands on Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay for Network. Read it. Then watch the movie. Then read it again. If you love and want to make big blockbusters that also have great artistic merit, do the same thing with Lawrence Kasdan’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark screenplay and the movie made from it. Think about how the screenplays made you feel. And how the movies built from these screenplays did or didn’t hit you the same way. […] This sounds basic, right? That’s because it is basic. And it’s true. All the information you need is the movies and screenplays you love. And in the books you’ve read and the relationships you’ve had and your ability to use those things.

I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That’s something I think I could do very well. Don’t you think we ought to do an A.W.? A.W.’s Alice in Wonderland? Andy Warhol’s Alice in Wonderland? A.W. stands for a lot of things, I understand. It would make a fantastic film, so I wanted somebody to write the script for it in a modern sense. I think it would be the most marvelous movie in the world if it could be done, don’t you think? Really, I don’t think they’ve done one since they did a Walt Disney one - which isn’t really doing it. In a sense it is, but not in the way it really should be done. What’s needed right now is a real scene. I mean not just cartoon characters, but the actual character of people because there’s so many fantastic people that you might as well use the people.