Amanda Peet Quotes

To write, you need to find what you love.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

I love my craft.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Everything about the movie 'Dope' is real artistry, and everybody put their full hearts and souls into it. It's a passion project; it's not one of those things everybody got paid a million dollars to do. Everybody on there wanted to do it. Everybody there believed in the project, and we just went for it. We all love each other.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I love to write.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.