David Lowery Quotes

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

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

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

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

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 think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

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

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world.

I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me.

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

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.