Jack Black Quotes

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo Mourning. I don't know how to golf, but it's an unbelievable opportunity to go out and golf with one of the greats. And he's out there making fun of my swing - I can't hit the ball - and I'm getting frustrated because I'm a competitor. So Alonzo pulled me aside and said, 'Man, you're getting the chance to golf with Bill Russell. How many people can say they've done that?' And I looked at him and said, 'You know what? You're right.'

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.