Nicholas Gonzalez Quotes

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

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

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.