Robert Pattinson Quotes

I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

The only thing that works is a good script!

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.