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Brian Helgeland Quotes

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

Brian Helgeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1961

Topics

People Me Writing Start Think Want

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

Wife Me Hockey Everything Where Met

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'

Jermaine Fowler

Talent Judges First Finish Jokes

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Gender Cultures Happen Come Been

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Moment People Born Say Will Dying

I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

Hate Theatre Exercise Rules Done

I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show.

Loved Television West Show Wing

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

Jordana Brewster

School Ugly Cool Fashion Thought

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

Day Words Brain Worth You Stop

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Colonel Sanders

Work Doing You Difference See Got

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.

Change Character Time Fun Enjoy

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Think Media Content System Natural

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Funny Everybody Obviously

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