Film Quotes by Melissa Rosenberg

11 Film quotes by Melissa Rosenberg

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Melissa Rosenberg’s concise commentary on movies packs a punch in just eleven lines. This brief collection highlights the themes and ideas that steer her storytelling, serving as a quick reference for anyone interested in her cinematic voice.

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With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

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Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

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I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in…

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The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out.…

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My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be…

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My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both…

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The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money,…

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You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing,…

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Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that…

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Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change…

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Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what…

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Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.

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That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline…

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When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head,…

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Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons,…

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What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being…

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In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who…

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Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but…

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I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's…

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With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for…

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What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have…

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Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes…

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I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is…

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