Shawn Wayans Quotes

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

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

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

As a director, you want to work with great writers.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

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

I like making movies.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.