Allison Schroeder Quotes

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I love writing for the screen.

I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

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

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'

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.

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

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.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I've done a lot of ad films where an idea can be translated in 30 or 40 seconds. But in a movie, an idea needs to be stretched for two hours, and requires you to draw a bit from your experiences in life.

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.