Philippe Falardeau Quotes

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

It's hard writing screenplays.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

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

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

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.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

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

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I love writing for the screen.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

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

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'