Shane Black Quotes

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

My story has been the story of my generation.

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

I suppose maybe [Wilson] would be a better person if he were able to censor himself, but then he wouldn't be as interesting.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

My hope is to see people of color in roles that do not emphasize race. Often times when movies are centered around people of color, they are movies where the storyline is based on some racial component. I want to see movies where people of color play more interesting, nuanced characters.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

My dream is to be a character in a Wes Anderson movie. I just love how interesting and eclectic and stylized his characters are, and I would love to dive into that world.

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.