Luciano Vincenzoni Quotes

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

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.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.