“I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling. “Truth, truth.” Like a blanket… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, you say things and people listen. I'm, I'm not like that. NEIL: Don't you think you could be? TODD: No! I--I, I don't know,… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. Now, those of you -- I see the look in your eyes like, "I would've walked differently." Well, ask yourselves why you were clapping. Now, we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust… — Tom Schulman Copy Share
“Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die” — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, you say things and people listen. I'm, I'm… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose.… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear. — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.” — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
