Funny Men quotes

The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book did, because it wasn't going to read as strongly on screen.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.