Ransom Riggs Quotes

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

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.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

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

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

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.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

I definitely want to develop my own film or TV show at some point. I constantly strive to be as productive as possible, even when I'm not on set.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

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.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

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.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

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.