Shane Black Quotes

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

Good scripts are hard to find.

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

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

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

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

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

I always write the script by myself.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I can't remember what my first script was.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

Writing a book is not easy.