Jon Favreau Quotes

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

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

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

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.