Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Bruce Feirstein.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Bruce Feirstein is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Nice Guys Sleep Alone. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 53 weeks.
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore.
I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd.
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.