Bits Quote by J. Michael Straczynski

Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new material. You…

— Justin Theroux

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

— Mel Gibson

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

— Damon Albarn

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the…

— Mads Mikkelsen

Sometimes I teach script writing.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic…

— Sally Hawkins

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

I don't read the script a zillion times, I don't like to analyze things and my mind can go there very easily.

— Brittany Murphy

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon