“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
“An ounce of heart knowledge is worth more than a ton of head learning.”
“Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance to you; these relationships need not extend to blood, of course, but the people who change your life emotionally - all those people, from different places, from different times, spanning many wholly unrelated coincidences - are nonetheless 'related'. We associate people with each other for emotional not for factual reasons - people who've never met each other, who don't even know each other exists; people, even, who have forgotten us.”
“Writing a screen play: One page of an average screen play equals about one minute of screen time. Therefore, the script for a typical feature film should be about 100 pages long. In fact, many studios and producers won't look at screen plays that are much longer.”