C. B.Hampton Quotes
I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.
Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.
Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.
I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs
Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society
There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
Remember the power is not in the leader of the group, but in the Creator of the universe.
I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.
Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!
Dad they think she has Down Syndrome." He smiled genuinely as his eyes welled up with tears. "That's okay. We love her.
Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.
But as much as we like the familiar, as leaders we must be willing to learn, and learning many times requires stretching, growing, and becoming a bit uncomfortable in the process.
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
