Kelly Asbury Quotes

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

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

It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get the arc of the story, of their relationship right.

'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.

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.

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.

You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.

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

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.