Outline Quotes

Yeah, look, he`s known me since I was getting into car accidents ... Then I was an actor for years. And I wrote an outline, a pretty detailed outline, and gave it to him, and I`m pretty certain he has yet to read that outline.

I`d love to say I was the kind of person who has an outline. But the only outline I have is that I want to carry on doing this all my life.

I don`t outline. And when I`ve done jobs either in television or for a studio, and outlines have been part of the deal, it seems completely artificial to me and, I think, made it harder for me to write the script afterward.

Regarding why his Wonder Woman script wasn`t accepted: It was in an outline, and not in a draft, and they didn`t like it. So I never got to write a draft where I got to work out exactly what I wanted to do. In terms of the meaning, the feeling, the look, the emotion, the character, the relationship with Steve Trevor, all of that stuff, I never wavered for a second... The lack of enthusiasm was overwhelming. It was almost staggering, and that was kind of from the beginning. I just don`t think my take on Wonder Woman was ever to their liking.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

I wrote an outline. I wrote a rough draft. And then I rewrote and rewrote and rewrote. And that`s the way you were supposed to write plays.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don`t like milk because they don`t like milk.

We had a basic outline of what we would be doing, but we learned a lot more during the project itself.