Paula Pell Quotes

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.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

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

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars', but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.