L.A. Paul Quotes

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

Human life is too difficult for people.

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

Every musical scene has a cycle.

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

Making movies is nice, man. A movie with some money behind it? Sweet. So many snacks and stuff. Name-brand. And many different kinds of coffee.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.

I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.

I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

I'm not an austere person.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

I really feed off of The Walking Dead.

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Every director should take an acting class.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.