Movie Writing Quotes

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk about the American experience. It took me a while to figure how to write a movie like that, because that's not something you learn at film school

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.'