Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Purpose

Words

Work

Related Quotes:

" People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Down

People

" We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. "

" The answer is there is no answer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Answer

" I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. "

" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "

" My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy. "

" I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Thoughts

People

" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

" My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. "

" I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. "

" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "

" The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. "

" David Fincher is a genius. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Genius

David

" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

" If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. "

" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

" My books are all fantastically sentimental. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Books

Sentimental

" Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. "

" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

" As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. "

" You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. "

" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

" If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever. "

" Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. "

" Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. "

" People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. "

" That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. "

" If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. "

" Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. "