Dave McCary Quotes

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.

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

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.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

I get to watch stories I wrote brought to life by the most brilliant actors in cinema.

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.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

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.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

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

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.