Nick Cave Quotes

I've never had a written script.

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

I just want to work on good scripts.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

I have always wanted to be more interested in scripts.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

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.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.