Quotes by Bruce Feirstein

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

— Bruce Feirstein

Success

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.

— Bruce Feirstein

Truth

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

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Wisdom

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

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Wisdom

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

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Wisdom

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

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Wisdom

I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore.

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Wisdom

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

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Wisdom

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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.

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Education

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.

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Success

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.

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Life

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.

— Bruce Feirstein

Wisdom