Ben Younger quotes

“You know, you kinda think you're gonna have to work for twenty years before you get to work with Meryl Streep. So getting to work with her... I almost feel like I didn't pay enough dues, it was pretty incredible. I always thought I'd work with her, I just didn't think it would happen at this point in my career.”
-- Ben Younger

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Talking Prime With Writer/Director Ben Younger". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. March 6, 2006.

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“For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.”
-- Ben Younger

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“As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to collaborate with, there's no material to look at. I haven't adapted something yet, so, I'm sure that would be helpful. When you're writing an original piece you have nothing.”
-- Ben Younger

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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“"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.”
-- Ben Younger

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“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.”

“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”

Source : Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.77, Penguin

“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan

“It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.”

“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”

“I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”