The Hollywood Jungle™

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

(Wolfgang Von Goethe)

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal.

Victor Hugo

I know many of my fellows will scoff but plot is important. As a child, I don't ever remember saying "mommy mommy tell me a character study". (Bill Marsilii)

Action is character. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

(Margaret Mead)

May you walk in softness.

Charly Flower

The true danger to a film, especially a summer film, is simplicity in that audiences are so smart and so capable that sometimes the films they're watching are kind of beneath them in a way. The audience is much more in danger of being bored than it is being intrigued or involved.

Terry Rossio

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)

The material itself dictates how it should be written.

William Faulkner

You can't sit around thinking. You have to sit around writing.

David Long

Ideas come from everywhere.

Alfred Hitchcock

Creativity is really the structuring of magic.

Ann Kent Rush

Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

All writing is dreaming.

Jorge Luis Borges

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point he is in business.

John Barrymore

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard