Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

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.

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

I love writing for the screen.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

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.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

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

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

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

I just want to work on good scripts.

It always comes down to script and characters.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

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

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

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

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

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