Anders Holm Quotes

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

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.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

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

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

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.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

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 always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.