Quote of the Day

This was not a spoken quote, but rather a line from an e-mail sent to me back in 2005. In it, my friend Kent was giving me notes on a fantasy script I was writing at the time. The note is on a specific line of dialog, apparently something involving "grave danger."

16 - "Grave danger." There has to be a better way to say this. Oh, did Chris or I ever tell you about "Grave Danger?" It's a zombie movie we conceptualized where a group of people trying to escape a zombie holocaust hide out in a graveyard, since all the zombies have left already. We'll never write it, thank God. Anyway.

This is a great note, but there are a few more worth putting on here. In fact, this is no longer "Quote of the Day," it's "Script Notes of the Day."

22 - Please don't use the word "nay."

24 - Production designer: "Shit, we have to build a city now?"
Dave: "You want that fucking Oscar, don't you?"

- Good stuff. It certainly holds your interest, and you have an excellent sense of how long a scene should be. So many fucking scripts have these scenes that go on for pages and pages, while their writers boldly explore the limits of my attention span.