Georgina Haig Quotes

A good script can come from anywhere.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

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

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Literature invents its own rules.

It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

I just want to work on good scripts.