Ernest Lehman famous quotes

Only grown-up men are scared of women.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Men #Scared

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Writing #Territory #Unthinkable

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer.  It's very curious. He knows something they don't know.  He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has.  Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes.  The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Writing #Knowing #People

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Decision #Information #Scene

One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Believe #Character #Listening

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

I am most scared of being bored

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared