Peter Capaldi Quotes

Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

I'm a very moody guy and I need good scripts which excite me.

I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they're mostly pretty crappy.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.