Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

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.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

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

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.