Sasha Alexander Quotes

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.

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

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.

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

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

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

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.