Quote

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers I think they become a crutch.

Jonathan Tropper

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
Executive Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Riverdale
New York City
Thinking
Crutch
Crutches
Fans
Become
Really
Think

More quotes by Jonathan Tropper

Image
Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
Jonathan Tropper
Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.
Jonathan Tropper
Image
The future just isn't what it used to be
Jonathan Tropper
Image
The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.
Jonathan Tropper