David Alpay Quotes

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!

I love writing for the screen.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.