David Wain Quotes

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

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

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.

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

There aren't enough good scripts.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

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.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

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

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

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.

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

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.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

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.

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.