Top 30 Gaghan Quotes
#2. As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
Stephen Gaghan
#3. Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
Stephen Gaghan
#4. It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.
Stephen Gaghan
#5. The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.
Stephen Gaghan
#6. It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
Stephen Gaghan
#7. Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
Stephen Gaghan
#8. I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.
Stephen Gaghan
#9. I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.
Stephen Gaghan
#10. I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.
Stephen Gaghan
#11. When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.
Stephen Gaghan
#12. The sky was a pretty canvas of blushing oranges, electric pinks, deep blues and vibrant purples as the sun made way for the moon.
A.Z. Green
#13. Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.
Miranda Hart
#14. For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my throat.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. His eyes searched every inch of my face. "I don't know . . . if I've ever been this distracted by someone," he said.
Christina Lauren
#17. I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.
Stephen Gaghan
#18. I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
Stephen Gaghan
#19. the world can still exist without god but it cannot survive without love.
Sanjeev Kumar
#20. -You said this wasn't a cult.
-Secret society. There's a difference.
-Not from where I'm standing.
-Then take a seat.
Jennifer Bosworth
#21. When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
Criss Jami
#23. At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.
Stephen Gaghan
#24. The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
Ismail Kadare
#26. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.
Terry Pratchett
#27. The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
Stephen Gaghan
#28. When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
Stephen Gaghan
#29. I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Mary Timony
#30. By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world.
Dalai Lama XIV
