Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

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

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

I'd like to eventually be known as someone who emerged as a songwriter.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't really have any life experience to work off of.

When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think it should be called writing; I think it should be called rendering content. Because you are there to render the content that is agreed upon in the room, and you're serving the voice of the main storyteller, which is the showrunner.

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

I'm a songwriter.

I watch 'Watchmen', and I wish I was in that writers room, so I could figure out what they're doing, story-breaking-wise. I've never seen a television show like that.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.