Lorene Scafaria Quotes

• The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Giving, Way, Waste

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• I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Friday, Way, Jersey

  "Keira Knightley & First-Time Director Lorene Scafaria on 'Seeking A Friend'" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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• For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Running, Airplane, Technology

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• Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Character, Play, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, People, You Only Live Once

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• We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

  Lorene Scafaria

  Life, Home, Missing

  "Fictional character: Nick". "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Routine is part of coping.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Routine, Coping

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

  Lorene Scafaria

  People, Way, Surround Yourself

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Interesting, Forever

  "Hollywood's Indie Spirit" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Ideas, Long, People

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• Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Feels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Texting, Letters, Old Fashioned

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• No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Writing, Thinking, Actors

  "Lorene Scafaria: Happily Ever After (Without The Ever After)". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2012.

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• It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Vision, Let It Go, Directors

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• Don't compromise when you're right.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Compromise

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Upset, Commodity

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Opportunity, Thinking, Given

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• I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Dream, New York, Home

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• In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Broken, Pieces, World

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• Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?

  Lorene Scafaria

  Queens, Self, Singing

  "Fictional character: Thom". "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

  Lorene Scafaria

  War, Reality, Worry

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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