B.S. Johnson Quotes

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

I was always the bad guy in Westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Virtue is too often merely local.