Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

I just want to work on good scripts.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

I have always wanted to be more interested in scripts.

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

A good script can come from anywhere.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.