Ezra Miller Quotes

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely help. Doing that for several years indirectly built a lot of tools that I would end up using when writing my own fiction.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.