Monday, June 10, 2013

A brief quote about writing

From William Goldman's indispensible book, Which Lie Did I Tell? (More Adventures in the Screen Trade) (salty language alert):

Mr. Ziegler, referred to earlier [Evarts Ziegler, once Goldman's agent], was once told that technology was going to change everything. He shook his head no. "I don't care," he began, "what you say. I don't care if your fucking technology figures out a way to beam movies from the moon directly into our brains." And here he paused a moment before finishing with this: "People are still going to have to tell stories."

Hear, hear.

3 comments:

Kaye Waller said...

Right-o!

Roger Owen Green said...

LIKE (oh, wait, this isn't Facebook...)

Kal said...

That is one of my favorite quotes ever. One more go round the script would make so many movie many times better.