Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

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

There aren't enough good scripts.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.