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John Patrick Shanley
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Quotes by John Patrick Shanley
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When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
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Walk towards the good. Don’t be distracted by fear, by rage. Walk towards the good. In places, that path is wide. In places, perilous. Walk.
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I’d like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they’re just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It’s like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script.
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You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church!
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Life happens when the tectonic power of your speechless soul breaks through the dead habits of the mind.
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I think that certainty is a closed door, It’s the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
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When I write a screenplay – and I think this is true for a lot of people – you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.
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