Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

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.

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

It's hard to write an Evan Hunter novel because I really am starting from scratch. I'm assuming a new voice each time. The McBain voice is set.

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

The intensity of the story breaking on 'Vampire' has never been easy. Every week, you're starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There's no formula; there's no franchise to hang your hat on.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

It's great to try another format and be part of telling a story over ten episodes.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate.

My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while editing.

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

Visuals are compelling, but sometimes the only way to get your point of view and purpose across is through words. Great copy can be embedded in any medium, any technology.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.