Tom Holland Quotes

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

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

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

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

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

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.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

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

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

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

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

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

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

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

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'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'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.