Kyle Mooney Quotes

I love writing for the screen.

I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

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

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

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.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

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.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

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

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

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

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

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

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.