Al Yankovic Quotes

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

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.

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

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.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

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.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

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.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

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.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

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'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.