Evan Daugherty Quotes

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

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

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

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

I just want to work on good scripts.

There aren't enough good scripts.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

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

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

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

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

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

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.

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

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.