Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Every film starts with the script.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

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

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.