Rupert Grint Quotes

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

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.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.