Jason Segel Quotes

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

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

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I've ended up working with Disney a lot, which is kind of peculiar. In theater, I've done a couple of projects with them and written a couple movies and whatnot.

'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.