Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I love writing for the screen.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

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.

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

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.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

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

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.