Tina Fey Quotes

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

I'll never be a TV writer.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.