If It Sounds Good As You Say

In Terms Of Screenwriting Adaptations It's Trying To Cut Out Stuff That's Extraneous, Without Doing Damage To The Original Piece, Because You Owe A Debt Of Some Respect To The Original Author. That's Why It Was Bought.

I Suppose We Think Euphemistically That All Writers Write Because They Have Something To Say That Is Truthful And Honest And Pointed And Important. And I Suppose I Subscribe To That, Too. But God Knows When I Look Back Over Thirty Years Of Professional Writing, I'm Hard-pressed To Come Up With Anything That's Important. Some Things Are Literate, Some Things Are Interesting, Some Things Are Classy, But Very Damn Little Is Important.

Good Evening, And Welcome To A Private Showing Of Three Paintings, Displayed Here For The First Time. Each Is A Collectors' Item In Its Own Way - Not Because Of Any Special Artistic Quality, But Because Each Captures On A Canvas, And Suspends In Time And Space, A Frozen Moment Of A Nightmare.

I Found That It Was All Right To Have Martians Saying Things Democrats And Republicans Could Never Say.

You Know, Writer Can Write About The Foreign Legion Without Ever Having Been In The Foreign Legion, But That Doesn't Necessarily Mean That What He's Written Doesn't Necessarily Reflect The Nature Of Him As An Individual - Or Her. Using The Male Gender Because It's Me Speaking. I Don't Mean To Put Down The Female.