Steven Seagal Quotes

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

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

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

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

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.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

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 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 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.

I've always wanted to make movies.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.