Quotes About Screenplays

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.

It's hard writing screenplays.

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Good scripts are hard to find.

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

No one bought my screenplays.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.