Diablo Cody Quotes

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

I love writing for the screen.

I just want to work on good scripts.

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

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

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.

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

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.