“I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.” WritingEnoughRememberFeltSoundScriptsLife ExperienceCheesyNyuWriting Scripts Author:Todd Phillips
“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.” WritingMeanSaidArtistStuffGoneSingingScriptsChecksVideoCollectingWriting Scripts Author:Tionne Watkins
“I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.” FeelsWritingI CanHappensEnjoyScriptsOutlinesDiagramsWriting Scripts Author:Neil Gaiman
“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
“[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.” WritingStillsScriptsMainstreamWriting Scripts Author:Rob Zombie
“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.” WritingCharacterShowsSchoolUsedGuyFunStageTvsScriptsGet UpOperaImaginaryTv ShowsDressingsSoapThat GuyDressing UpSoap OperasWriting Scripts Author:Chris Lilley
“There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.” WritingJobsGeniusHappeningsScriptsGenderPercentagesWriting Scripts Author:Dan Harmon
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” ThinkingWayWritingBornBusinessWrittenWriters And WritingNovel WritingWriting By WritersGreat WritingCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteFamous WritersWriting From Famous AuthorsWriting ScriptsLearning How To Write Author:Ernest Hemingway
“I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is.” WritingKindProblemBigsDealsIssuesDirectorsScriptsNo ProblemBig DealScreenwritingIt Is What It IsWriting Scripts Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.” WritingMeanMadeFilmConsciousScriptsEditsWriting Scripts Author:Josh Radnor
“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.” WritingYearsMadeSchoolFilmPositionScriptsVarietyShortsFilm SchoolBefore And AfterWriting Scripts Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
“I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesSeeingScriptsAriseHorriblePlotAmazonOutliningWriting Scripts Author:Whit Stillman
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” PeopleWritingDifficultWrittenCreative WritingWriting AdviceWriting A BookWriters And WritingBook WritingWritten WordWriter's BlockScreenwritingWriting By WritersReading And WritingWriting StoriesWriters ReadingWriting And ReadingInspiration To WriteWriting WellInspiring WritingReading WritingWriting WordsEditing And WritingWriting Children's BooksWriting Scripts Author:Thomas Mann
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.” PeopleWritingIdeasStoriesPastWalksFiveWrittenThousandSixGood WritingGood WritersFiction WritingWriters And WritingFiction WritersNovel WritingWriting FictionWriting By WritersGreat WritingStory WritingWriting StoriesCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteFamous WritersStory WritersWriting Every DayWriting Scripts Author:Orson Scott Card
“It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.” I CanDirectorsScriptsGood MovieScreenwritingBad MoviesWriting Scripts Author:George Clooney
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.” WritingIdeasStoriesPastWalksWrittenThousandFiction WritingWriters And WritingFiction WritersNovel WritingWriting FictionWriting By WritersGreat WritingStory WritingWriting StoriesCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteFamous WritersStory WritersWriting Every DayWriting Scripts Author:Orson Scott Card
“I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.” WritingScriptsProposalWriting Scripts Author:Mark Millar
“For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.” WritingYearsScriptsMusclesWeightliftingWriting Scripts Author:Shane Black
“Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.” WritingRealPainJobsScriptsReal PainWriting Scripts Author:Shane Black
“We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.” WayWritingAgeYoungActingPovertyEnvironmentGrewGrew UpScriptsYoung AgeOur EnvironmentEscapingWriting ScriptsSkit Author:Viola Davis
“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.” PeopleIfsNeedsWritingTryingShowsHouseRoomsDirectorsDirectScriptsExecutionBricksScreenwritingWriting Scripts Author:John Patrick Shanley