Graham Linehan Quotes

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

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.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

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.

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

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.