Screenwriting Quotes
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
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It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.
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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
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I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
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I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.
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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.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.
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Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
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Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.
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I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
