Amanda Schull Quotes

Every film starts with the script.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

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

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

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.