"When I was a screenwriter, I was doing……" — James Frey

"When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons."

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161 Quotes by James Frey

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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of…
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something…
I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous…
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and…
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest,…
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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