Obie Trice Quotes

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I love writing for the screen.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

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.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

'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 just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

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'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

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

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

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

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

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.

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.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

Good scripts are hard to find.

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.