I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarc…

- Hampton Fancher

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: …

- Hampton Fancher

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

- Hampton Fancher

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them -…

- Hampton Fancher

I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a lo…

- Hampton Fancher

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

- Hampton Fancher

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

- Hampton Fancher

I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it.…

- Hampton Fancher

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because…

- Hampton Fancher