“If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.” IfsWritingIdeasCharacterProjectsSightDown AndListsDescriptionMonologues Author:Thomas Perry
“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.” KnowsWritingYearsStoriesCoursesReadingProjectsYears AgoScriptsProducersExhaustedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Kerry Washington
“Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.” WritingPassionProjects Author:Thomas Lennon
“It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.” WantWritingMindVoiceInvolvedProjectsFlattering Author:Chris Messina
“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.” IfsKnowsWritingCharacterActorsProjectsApproachListsStandpointAdjectives Author:Omari Hardwick
“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingStoriesWorryIssuesCostProjectsDirectProductionsDo The BestConstraints Author:Jose Padilha
“I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingLittlesHas BeensMadeCharacterFilmNovelProjectsExcitingCastsBoringBeing TrueEssaysExpanding Author:Jonathan Franzen
“Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.” KnowsWritingBookPlayEasyStrugglePaintingProjectsPaint Author:Antony Sher
“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.” PeopleWritingMadeWould BePoliticalHumanityThreeCenturyMaterialsProjectsDefinedFlawedCrookedTimber Author:George Will
“Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.” WritingMindWellsLeftProjectsFinals Book:Fangirl Source: Fangirl
“Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.” IfsWritingFirstsCareFilmProjectsVery GoodScriptsCrucialGood WritingGood Films Author:Giovanna Cau
“I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.” WritingMy OwnProduceProjectsDirectFundMoguls Author:Kevin Hart
“My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.” PeopleWritingFirstsSometimesStuffMy OwnLove IsProjectsFirst Love Author:Missy Elliot
“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.” WorldShouldWritingMeanWarHardHatePrayerCommonGenerationsInvolvedProjectsRemainsCompetitionMalesWar Of The WorldsParadigmGoreSecond World WarSelf Hate Author:Erica Jong