Mary Stuart Masterson Quotes

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.