Jeff Nichols Quotes

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I have always wanted to be more interested in scripts.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I love writing for the screen.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

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

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.