Futterman Quotes

#1. Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

Dan Futterman

#2. 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

#3. Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I change my thoughts, I change my world.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

Dan Futterman

#7. The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order ...

Stanislaw Lem

#8. Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Loretta Lynch

#9. Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

#10. I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.

Dan Futterman

#11. I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

Dan Futterman

#12. Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

Pramila Jayapal

#13. I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

Dan Futterman

#14. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Futterman