Bryan Singer Quotes

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

As a director, you want to work with great writers.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

There are people who've told me cinema is a visual medium and you don't need to say so much. When I write the script, all these lines of what the characters are thinking are written. Once the film is shot and the lines are dubbed, I tone it down in postproduction if I feel it gets heavy.

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

In my films writers are more important than actors.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.