Rory Freedman Quotes

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.