Dan Futterman quotes

“We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.”
-- Dan Futterman

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

#Silly Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Shooting Quotes

“I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.”
-- Dan Futterman

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“I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.”
-- Dan Futterman

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“Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.”
-- Dan Futterman

Source : "Post-Mortem: Co-showrunner Dan Futterman weighs in on the ‘Gracepoint’ killer reveal". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 12, 2014.

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”

“Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?”

Source : Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

“TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com

“If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.”

“If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK

“When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.”

“Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.”

“Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.”