Quotes About Writing

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

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.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

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.

'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

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.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.