Terrell Suggs Quotes

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

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

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

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

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

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.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I love writing for the screen.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

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

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.