Matt Bomer Quotes

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web.

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.