Tobias Lindholm Quotes

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

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.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.