Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Mom, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

• When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Writing, Character, Want

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Interview, Nightcrawler". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October, 2014.

• I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Moving, Writing, Artist

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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