Farhan Akhtar Quotes

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

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

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

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.

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

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

I enjoyed writing 'Tashan' very much.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.