Latest Danny Strong Quotes from Interviews

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• It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

  Danny Strong

  Real, Presidential, Election

  Source: collider.com

• Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.

  Danny Strong

  Christian, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a dime off any of them. Recount was the first thing I sold, and I actually sold it as a pitch to HBO. They bought it as a pitch, which was a miracle. I thought, "Wow, this could be the last time I'll be paid to write a script again, which would be too bad because that was an amazing experience I just had."

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Miracle, Last Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Okay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.

  Danny Strong

  People, Strange, Ask Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Successful, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very political. Because I read politics every day, so I'm familiar with the world. I approach the films is I'm trying to write what is true, so that supersedes partisan spin, in my opinion. I find partisanship is a thing for cable news and newspaper articles, but it's not interesting for art. I think we all believe what we believe, and I don't think a film is going to change someone's mind.

  Danny Strong

  Art, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

  Danny Strong

  Interesting, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In the case of Game Change, the discussion in that film was how our politicians have become so much like celebrities - personality becomes more important than substance so that they can function in a 24-hour news cycle. So the question is, how do you feel about that? Is this what you want from a politician - somebody who's wildly charismatic, but has so little knowledge of substantive issues?

  Danny Strong

  Personality, Important, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

  Danny Strong

  People, House, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The exciting thing about today with the Internet, streaming, and YouTube, is you can just go do it. You can go make a short and put it up, and it, very well, may be seen. You can create your own Internet series and just put it out there. It wasn't like that when I was in my 20s. People weren't doing this sort of thing - now they can and they should try it.

  Danny Strong

  People, Trying, May

  Source: deadline.com

• To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

  Danny Strong

  Fighting, Thinking, Rights

  Source: deadline.com

• I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Process, Writing Process

  Source: deadline.com

• Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

  Danny Strong

  Written

  Source: deadline.com

• Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Gone, Done

  Source: deadline.com

• I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

  Danny Strong

  Thinking, Issues, Race

  Source: deadline.com