Matthew McGrory Quotes

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

There aren't enough good scripts.

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

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.

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I usually just do, like, studio jobs, re-writes and stuff.

I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

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.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

I'd love to write for other people.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

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

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.