Gene Wilder Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.

I found myself trying to work within the Los Angeles system. I had an agent and a manager, which I still do, and going to meetings with networks about game shows and reality shows and projects that weren't mine. It was fun, but it wasn't what I'd set out to do.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream.

Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism for wayward screenwriters looking to slip you a first draft, or the occasional actor looking to get in on the latest shoot. But I hate the question because of my own answer - I write about games.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.