I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>