Shiloh Fernandez Quotes

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always have something more important to do: you will have to take your children to school, you will have to cook something, you have to meet friends. But you have to fight if you want to write.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.