Nate Corddry Quotes

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.

I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.

I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.

There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

It's funny how many people that I've come across in my time that have gone on to achieve great success.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

I remember this one time I had a dream about me writing a screenplay, and when I woke up, you know those dreams that feel so real, but I woke up and I was like, 'Oh my god I have this amazing screenplay I need to write down as soon as I wake up' and then I woke up and I was like what the heck was I dreaming of?

If I had grown up in London, I wouldn't have been as keen to become a comedian or a writer. I'd have been able to see a lot of good films and music and comedy. I'd have been distracted. As it was, I had to make it.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.