Paul Schrader Quotes

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I love writing for the screen.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

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

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

It's hard writing screenplays.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.