“For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.” IfsIndustryScriptsButterfly Author:Shailene Woodley
“I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes” KnowsKindDifferentCharacterStoriesTogetherFilmThreeFeltLike YouIndustryScriptsGenuineAll KindsThemeJust BeingReally GreatDifferent CharactersGreat CharacterIntertwined Author:George Tillman, Jr.
“Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!” PeopleWritingMightFictionIndustrySurpriseScriptsBe GoodDialogueCablesFiction Writers Author:Matthew Specktor
“I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.” ThinkingShouldEndsFormStuffIndustryScriptsDesksShelvesScreenwriters Author:William Monahan
“You do a movie [where] you like the script [and] it has something to say that you care about. And there are certain people in this industry that you kind of stick with. Guys like [“The Congressman” producer] Fred Roos. They call you, and if you’re not working, that’s what you do.” PeopleIfsKindCareGuyCertainIndustrySticksScriptsProducersCongressman Author:George Hamilton
“I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.” YearsKindWholeFilmIndustryCoupleConversationScriptsBackgroundsFilm IndustryApprenticeshipBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.” WritingIdeasFormFeltMy OwnIndustryNeededPaidSellsScriptsFrankUniquenessWeirdnessCollateral Author:Allan Loeb