Bob Newhart Quotes

Good scripts are hard to find.

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

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

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.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

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.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

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

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.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

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.

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

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

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

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

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.

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.