“You have to write, because nobody will be able to write the thing for you that you probably should be doing.” – pg. 16
“You’re the cheapest person available to write your own screenplay. Why don’t you do it?” – Cameron Crowe, pg. 37
“It’s a soup of true and made-up stuff trying to capture the essence of something.” – pg. 39
“We want to tell stories that make people want to take the risk to love better or connect more, to take a risk and improve somehow.” – Cameron Crowe, pg. 45
“I think it’d be better for everyone if they all expressed themselves through art, culture, through making things, but a lot of people just don’t want to, because they couldn’t care less and they’re happy as can be.” – pg. 67
“It’s normal to get depressed after success, because you realize that it doesn’t really make you happy in your core.” – pg. 81
“You can’t paint everybody with the same brush.” – Gayle King, pg. 100
“Yes, I think most comedians are trying to make sense of the universe. And comedy is their way of expressing their search.” – pg. 105
“People don’t have any compassion for the amount of stress creative people are under to do their work.” – pg. 127
“There’s also the option of doing nothing, and I don’t think we really embrace that enough. I think sometimes people talk when they shouldn’t. There’s an eloquence and a grace in not talking sometimes.” – Hannah Gadsby, pg. 136
“I feel like there’s a journey that so many comedians go through. You start out with an instinct to be funny – sometimes it’s driven by resentment – and then, slowly, you realize that it’s actually about personal self-discovery.” – pg. 147
“What you feel more often is I don’t know if they can convince people to see it, but I know that this is great. And at some point, a certain amount of people will recognize that. I want any movie I make to be good enough that the people who like it think that it’s amazing, even if it’s fewer people overall.” – pg. 156
“You’re trying to paint around the edges of something enough for somebody to see what’s not there. What you didn’t write.” – Jeff Tweedy, pg. 158
“It takes a lot of discipline just to clear your head enough to go into a space that has nothing to do with all the things happening in the world. To tune in to your own stuff.” – pg. 163
“One thing I appreciate about comedy is when bad things happen, I always think, I can put this to good use.“ – pg. 164
“I think that people are born creators. People are walking around creating all the time, and they don’t understand what they’re doing. […] Allow yourself to make things like you did when you were a little kid. You didn’t care if it was good or bad; it was just a fucking miracle that you did something and Mom and Dad hung it on the refrigerator.” – Jeff Tweedy, pg. 167
“Python is just saying, ‘Life is insane. This planet that we’re on, it’s ridiculous, nothing works, and nobody knows what they’re doing.’” – John Cleese, pg. 207
“There are far more people who are less talented but who are obsessed who will make it than people who are super talented but don’t have the patience to put in the time.” – Mindy Kaling, pg. 285
“They say that most filmmakers or writers write the same story every time, even if they think they’re doing something different.” – pg. 287
“My weird instinct is to feel like I planned poorly, rather than just realize that life can’t be controlled.” – Nathan Fielder, pg. 303
“You want to hear one that is actually in line with helping and with understanding what’s going on, even if that joke encompasses the lack of understanding people have.” – Ramy Youssef, pg. 330
“That is the insecurity of any artistic business where it’s not a science. We’ve just got hunches. Sometimes you’re wrong.” – Sacha Baron Cohen, pg. 372
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