Mike Binder Quotes

“I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.”

“Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.”

“You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that God gave people a fixed number of tears and are of two kinds: tears of sadness and tears of happiness. And that I should not waste my tears elsewhere, but keep them for the moments of happiness. Would be a shame to not have tears to cry then ... ”

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“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.”

“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

“After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.”

“My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.”

“I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.”

“We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.”