Dan Gilroy Quotes

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

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.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.