Quotes About Inspiration

It's hard writing screenplays.

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.

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

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.

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.'

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

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.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

When you read a script, you get a feeling 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.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

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