Writing Scripts Quotes

• 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.

  George Clooney

  Good Movie, Directors, Scripts

  "Bedside manner". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2002.

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• It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Writing, Thinking

  "With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

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• 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.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Past, Ideas

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• A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

  Thomas Mann

  Writing, People, Difficult

  "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Past, Ideas

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• [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.

  Rob Zombie

  Writing, Scripts, Mainstream

  Source: movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Chris Lilley

  Fun, Writing, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Writing, Genius

  "Dan Harmon walks us through Community's second season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Issues, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• 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.

  Josh Radnor

  Writing, Mean, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Writing, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Scripts, Diagrams

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tionne Watkins

  Writing, Mean, Artist

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• 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.

  Todd Phillips

  Writing, Nyu, Cheesy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Writing, People, House

  "Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Escaping, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

  Shane Black

  Jobs, Pain, Real

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• For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Years, Scripts

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• I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

  Mark Millar

  Writing, Scripts, Proposal

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• 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.

  Whit Stillman

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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