Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Joel Rubin

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bruce Joel Rubin is an American screenwriter, meditation teacher, and photographer. His films often explore themes of life and death with metaphysical and science fiction elements. Prominent among them are Jacob's Ladder, My Life and Ghost, for which he received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Ghost was also nominated for Best Picture, and was the highest-grossing film of 1990. He is sometimes credited as "Derek Saunders" or simply "Bruce Rubin".

American - Writer | Born: March 10, 1943

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I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.

Bruce Joel Rubin

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

Bruce Joel Rubin

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

Bruce Joel Rubin

When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'

Bruce Joel Rubin

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Joel Rubin

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