Marti Noxon Quotes

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

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.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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.

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

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

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.

In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

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 script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

The reason most novelists are not good screenwriters is that you don't have time for a lot of details. Novelists can really create a richer experience for the reader and have many subplots. You only have 90 pages because each page is a minute of screentime. You have to have certain things happen by certain pages, a certain story arc in the movie.

I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

When there's a good script, everybody circles.