Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film is always what a critic writes, and the fun of a film or the emotion of a film is what the audience feels.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you're just getting mad and it's not going to be fun for anybody.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to make people see the movie a lot. The music is going to make you want to go see it again. You have so much fun in the movie, and it's music that you want to share with your kids, anyway.

The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one that from time to time I'm sure even the greatest have to pull themselves up short by the Shift key to remind themselves that it is story first that they should write.

Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun, to play. I like tradition and classicism but I have always liked to mix it up, even if it shocks at times.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.