Rachael Harris Quotes

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I just want to work on good scripts.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

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

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

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

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.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

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 studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

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

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.