Latest Jonathan Tropper Quotes from Interviews

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• When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lines, Hoping For The Best, Screenwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Doe, Purpose, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Hero, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Fans, Crutches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Jobs, Character, Costumes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Writing, Character, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com