Alice Hoffman Quotes

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie!

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

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

I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.

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 got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

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.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.