D. B. Weiss Quotes

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

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

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.

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

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

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

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

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.