Nunnally Johnson quotes

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
-- Nunnally Johnson

#Dramatic #Should #Screenwriting

Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own. Just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody.
-- Nunnally Johnson

#Wrath #Soul #Pieces

Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.
-- Nunnally Johnson

#Baby #Women #Rivers

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.