Jamie Zawinski Quotes

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

I went to Fulham for the project they explained to me - but it didn't really work out. I might have been playing at a high level for the national team, but I was starting to miss those European nights and challenging for titles.

I don't just get to wiggle my nose and money drops out of the sky.

I came out of the failure of 'Mister' rather fast. It took me just three days.

I was supposed to do Mammootty's 'White,' but it didn't work out.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.

He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.

Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!