Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof. — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,'… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I thought I'd have time to become a movie star. And it didn't happen, did it? We're still waiting. And they're saying,… — Veronica Hamel Copy Share Image
There have always been discussions about a 'Pippin' movie. I think it would lend itself very well to film if one could… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream. That's how I get by. -Jack Sparrow — Pirates Of The Caribbean Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day… — Natasha Tsakos Copy Share Image
To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
