Adam Green Quotes

I want to make movies like 'The Upside of Anger,' 'Maria Full of Grace,' old-school films like 'Some Kind of Wonderful' or 'Vision Quest': movies you remember songs and lines from.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

As a director, you want to work with great writers.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.