Tate Taylor Quotes

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

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

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

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

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

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

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

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

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.