Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share
I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
