Screenplays Quotes

(on picking screenplays) I wouldn`t know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I`m a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better. (2004)

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn`t be writing screenplays. I`d be writing novels.

I`m developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I`ve made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

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`ve written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Screenplays I didn`t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that`s the end. Here`s another who`s never going to write well again.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

At the moment, I`m toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.