Quote of the Day (Nancy Bilyeau, on Screenplays at Their Best)

“Screenplays are widely perceived as minimalist pieces of writing, bereft of the flair and texture of prose. But that's not true. A fine script includes complex characterization, flavorful dialogue and evocative action—all greatly distilled. It's boxed French cognac to a novelist's bottle of Merlot.”—Novelist Nancy Bilyeau, “Word Craft: Hollywood's Gift to the Novel," The Wall Street Journal, March 16-17, 2013

Quote of the Day (Filmmaker Sally Potter, on Age As a ‘Kind of Fiction’)

“I've always done things at the wrong age. Being too young to do stuff seemed to go on forever until I was about 42 and then suddenly I was too old. So I realised that age, and time itself in fact, are a kind of fiction to which are attached stereotypes, caricatures, all kinds of notions that we internalize about stages of life. Part of me relishes being a renegade in that particular department.”—Director-screenwriter Sally Potter, on releasing her debut album at age 73, quoted by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “ ‘Part of Me Relishes Being a Renegade,’” The Financial Times, June 24-25, 2023

The image accompanying this post, showing Sally Potter at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, was taken Feb. 26, 2020, by Harald Krichel.

Quote of the Day (Kendra Cunningham, on Watching ‘He's Just Not That Into You’)

“I recently watched He's Just Not That Into You. Through my ex’s living-room window." —Stand-up comic Kendra Cunningham, quoted in “Joke of the Week,” TimeOut New York, October 30-November 5, 2014 issue