Bruce Vilanch Quotes

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

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

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

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

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.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

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

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I know firsthand how much work has usually gone into a screenplay, so if there's something that rings false or a line that I would think would need a tweak or something, I will think long and hard before I even recommend changing it. In that sense, I'm very faithful to the scripts that I get - if they're good scripts.