Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major...
But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.
I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful....
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.
That's the worst feeling in movies to me, when you feel it's this rote character that's just abiding like a computer to what the proper response would be from the previous scene.
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
I often receive a script that is not quite right. They will write my characters who are in a room with a big group of people arguing with each other, following everything that is being said and even...
If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.
It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.