Juno Temple Quotes

TV is a writer's medium.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

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

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

In my films writers are more important than actors.

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.

If I write a cop show, it's not up to me to decide how different it is from 'Law & Order.' I had screenwriters go on and on and on about how their cop show isn't like any other cop show on TV. They made very good points, and it absolutely doesn't matter. It's entirely up to the audience to decide.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

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

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

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 feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

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.

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

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

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.