Best quotes by John Patrick Shanley on People
Checkout quotes by John Patrick Shanley on People
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‟ Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.
- John Patrick Shanley
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‟ If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
- John Patrick Shanley
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‟ When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
- John Patrick Shanley
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‟ When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.
- John Patrick Shanley
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‟ Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.
- John Patrick Shanley