Jane Fallon Quotes

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

There aren't enough good scripts.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.