Henry Rollins Quotes

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

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

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

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.

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

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

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

I love writing for the screen.

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

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.