Evan Daugherty Quotes

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 have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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

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

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

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.

I love writing for the screen.

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.

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

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

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.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within 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 would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

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

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

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.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

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.

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.