Bong Joon-ho Quotes

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

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

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.