One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of…

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone…

— Kate Bush

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

— David Plotz

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

— Joey Jordison

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“When all you see is your pain, perhaps then you lose sight of me?”

— W.M. Paul Young

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be…

— Mark Pellegrino

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said…

— Nora Ephron

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest…

— Jason Reitman

A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down…

— Steven Pressfield

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without…

— Syd Field

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the…

— Robert Mark Kamen

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

— Brad Pitt

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

— Frank Miller