Mel Gibson Quotes

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

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.

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don't really know what you're doing.

I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.

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

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

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

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Writing is hard.

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

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

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.

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.