George Lucas Quotes

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

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.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

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.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.