Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.

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

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

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

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up