Liam Hemsworth Quotes

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

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'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

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

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

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.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

I don't have a stack of scripts.