Frank N. Newman quotes

  • I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

  • My career is my girlfriend.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

  • It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  • It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

  • Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

  • Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  • Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  • If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

  • I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

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