Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

I avoid listening to too many people's comments about my script. I have learned to take in what is of use. It's too frustrating looking at somebody's notes who didn't get what you were doing. If somebody says, 'This stinks, and here are all the reasons,' that's not going to help you.

I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.

I always wanted to direct and write a movie, but I thought that I didn't really have it in me. I tried to write fiction and humorous short stories, and some were considered successful, but it was always a huge effort for a small reward. I was always intimidated by the process.

I never took a writing class.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.

There are a couple of stories that I have in my head for which I feel like I should collaborate with people. So yes, if I would like to direct, I would also like to write whatever I direct.

There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding. I'm constantly trying to remember an eavesdropped conversation or an idea for a story.