Elizabeth Birckhead

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?”
― Harlan Ellison

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.”
― Stephen A. Smith