I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
Good scripts are hard to find.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.
I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
I have always wanted to be more interested in scripts.
'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.
I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.
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.
I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.
I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.
