Zaillian Quotes

#1. Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Brad Pitt

#2. Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

Peter Jacobson

#3. The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

Steven Zaillian

#4. If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

Clare Boylan

#6. For the first time in her life she was proud of her size, proud of her strength, even proud of her oddly boyish face. She could see interest, even admiration in the faces of many of the girls.

Ann Bannon

#7. I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Steven Zaillian

#8. I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

Steven Zaillian

#9. You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

Ty Burrell

#10. People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles ... it's a small percentage.

Steven Zaillian

#11. Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

Stephen Baldwin

#12. Baboons are very wise animals," Bast said.
"Agh!" Khufu picked his nose, then turned his Technicolor bum our direction. He threw his friends the ball. They began to fight over it, showing one another their fangs and slapping their heads.
"Wise?" I asked.

Rick Riordan

#13. Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

Wil S. Hylton

#14. Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

Anonymous

#15. I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

Steven Zaillian

#16. You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

Steven Zaillian

#17. Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

S.J. Rozan

#18. The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

Steven Zaillian

#19. Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

David Charvet