Tim Robbins Quotes

I'm a cliche.

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I'm terrified of cliches.

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy. That's also reality. Things working out is a reality. It's encouraging.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

I love a happy ending. They are so rare.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.

All's well that ends well.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.