Rod Lurie Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

What the world does not need is another script or television writer.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.

When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the best writing I've ever done, I still found myself looking for the next thing.

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

Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.

There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'

I don't think I would ever write and star in a show again.

I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

It's always been a dream of mine to have my own show.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

I stayed in the East for about a year after I graduated. Then, I came out to Los Angeles and started knocking on doors and working my way up. This was the '70s. I had been told how tough it was for a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, but I sort of had blinders on. I just did things anyway.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

I'm very career-driven.

The main dream is to get 'Mandem On The Wall' its own TV show. That's the kind of platform that we're trying to reach.