Julie Plec Quotes

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

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

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.

I remember watching Quentin Tarantino accept an Academy Award for screenwriting for 'Pulp Fiction.' If I'd known then that 15 years later one of his movies would again be nominated for an Oscar and I'd be in it - that would be pretty crazy.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

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.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

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

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

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

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 sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

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

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.