Zach Braff Quotes

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

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

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

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

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 proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

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 wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

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.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

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

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

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

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

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

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.