Stacey Snider Quotes

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

I think what I look for in a script, it's the relatability quotient that matters the most.

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

I just respond to the stories I'm being asked to tell.

I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.