Drafts Quote by Lenny Henry Download Open image “You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact.” — Lenny Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drafts Get Good Screenwriter Unless
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible. — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I lament the passing of 'Play for Today,' 'Armchair Theatre,' 'Screen One and Two' and 'Comedy Playhouse' - because these shows gave a platform… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
With every task you think, 'What did I do wrong there? What could I do better?' That's why I've spent my life gravitating towards… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if you can… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great, if there was a one-stop shop where funny people could take their ideas and have them made? — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery. — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
