“In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.” WritingIdeasDifferentFilmTvsSixSummerDecidedScriptsPilotsDetectivesDifferent Ideas Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.” IfsFeelsWritingTwoBookDifferentFilmNovelOkayDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Augusten Burroughs
“If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.” IfsWritingSchoolFilmFormCapacityLondonTradersFilm SchoolNyu Author:Jeff Cooper
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.” IfsKnowsWantWritingBookFilmStuffNovelCraftsIndie FilmsWriting For Yourself Author:Thomas Lennon
“I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.” ThinkingWantNeedsWritingIdeasFilmFocusRight Ideas Author:Jack Whitehall
“I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'” WritingFirstsHeartLittlesPlayFilmActingAuditions Author:Jonah Hill
“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.” WritingLongFilmFallThreeActorsStuffViewsMillionsVideoSecondsBowlsToiletsKittenGood ActorsShort Films Author:Ben Schwartz
“A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.” PeopleWritingShowsFilmRoomsTvsCome UpTv ShowsLiving Room Author:Timothy Hutton
“I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.” IfsThinkingWayWritingMightFilmStreetsGrewGrew UpEastMy WayLos AngelesIndie Films Author:Michael Trevino
“There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'” PeopleWayShouldWritingRememberFilmCommunityPayStreetsStrangeHorrorOne DaySixCornersScaryCinemaCentreHorror FilmAround The CornerQueues Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.” WritingHappensFilmProcessWrittenProduceScriptsDown The Road Author:Judi Shekoni
“My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.” WritingTwoIdeasWholeFilmYoungGirlThreeProcessUnderstandingWatchesGoneChildhoodScriptsDialogueNo IdeaEtcFilmmakingScreenplaysBollywoodWriting Scripts Author:Rani Mukerji
“You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.” WritingFilmCertainGrowsGrowing UpLettersExtraordinaryFilmmakerAdmiringLove Letter Author:Simon Pegg