Danny DeVito Quotes

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

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

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.