Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

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

I get so excited about reading a new script.

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

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.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

I love writing for the screen.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.