Sajid Nadiadwala Quotes

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.

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

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

I prepared the script of 'Pataas', when working for 'Kandireega'. When I approached Kalyan Ram with the script, he liked it and said that he will produce the film with a big hero.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

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

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.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I saw 'Night at the Museum,' and the thing about him and his kid brought me and my kid together.' Something like that... it's like, 'Oh, right. That's why we're doing it.'

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

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.

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.