Vikramaditya Motwane Quotes

I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

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

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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 always write the script by myself.

In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.