Thomas Lennon Quotes

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

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

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

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

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

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

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

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

Every film starts with the script.

I'd love to do movies.

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Harry [ Hannigan] and Chris [Ellis] are sitting there while we're doing [ Fresh Hell], and Chris is directing, obviously, but if we start fooling around a little bit, Harry comes in, and he's got some addition that makes it even funnier. But we start with a complete script.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

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

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.

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.

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.