Gayle Forman Quotes

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.

Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

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.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.