Brian Koppelman Quotes

#1. I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

#2. Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

Brian Koppelman

#3. Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Brian Koppelman

#4. Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

Richard Branson

#5. I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.

Brian Koppelman

#7. The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

Brian Koppelman

#8. I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Patty Hearst

#9. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Brian Koppelman

#11. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Brian Koppelman

#12. That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Frank Moore Colby

#13. All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Brian Koppelman

#14. 'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Brian Koppelman

#15. What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

Brian Koppelman

#16. If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

David Dewhurst

#17. You don't need any expert's permission to write your story, your way.

Brian Koppelman

#18. This skin cripples me. It always has. - Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Jeanette Lynes

#19. Technology was meant to be a tool, not a crutch. The entire world had become dependent on gadgets for entertainment and personal happiness.

Mary Jane Hathaway