Sasha Pieterse Quotes

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

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

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

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

I prepared the script of 'Pataas', when working for 'Kandireega'. When I approached Kalyan Ram with the script, he liked it and said that he will produce the film with a big hero.

It was cinematographer George C. Williams who first told me about 'Sakhavu.' He said that the script was good and asked me to listen to it. Later, Sidhartha Siva called me and narrated the script over the phone.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

There aren't enough good scripts.