Quotes About Expression

Screenwriting is about condensing.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

I always write the script by myself.

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I don't like scripts.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

My heart truly lies in good scripts.

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but maybe also a book.

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.