Hampton Fancher Quotes

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.

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.