Michael Koryta Quotes

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

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

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

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

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 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.

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 think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

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.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

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

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

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

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.