Dusty Hill Quotes

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

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.

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.