Jonathan Glazer Quotes

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

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.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

I lost my confidence.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

I always write the script by myself.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Self-doubt kills talent.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.