I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition,… — 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
