Greg Kinnear Quotes

Good scripts are hard to find.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

It always comes down to script and characters.

Stories matter to me. I look for a good script, story, and a strong part.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

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

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

My job is to help my father tell stories.

I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.

I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

I never let the technical stuff get in the way of the storytelling.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Every actor just wants good writing.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.