Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I've had many of my books optioned.

My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

They sent us the script of 'Back to the Future III' and we wrote 'Doubleback' for it.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

The only thing that works is a good script!

I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.