Suzanne Collins Quotes

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

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

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.