You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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