Evan Daugherty Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

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

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay.

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

It's not just the actor who's responsible for a film becoming a hit. A whole lot of work and people are involved in it.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.

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.