Richard LaGravenese Quotes

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

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

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Great writing makes great television.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I had been contemplating working on fiction show for some time and 'Humsafars' seemed like the perfect choice.

I just read the script; everything else just follows. Content is the most important thing for me.