Kay Cannon Quotes

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

I prepared the script of 'Pataas', when working for 'Kandireega'. When I approached Kalyan Ram with the script, he liked it and said that he will produce the film with a big hero.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

Every film starts with the script.

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

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.