Makoto Shinkai Quotes

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

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

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

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.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

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

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.