Quotes about writ
writing voice important
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director. Quentin Tarantino
writing editing lasts
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
writing kill-bill calling
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right. And consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and got to "Kill Bill" volume 1 and 2.
writing thinking way
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.
writing thinking perspective
I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
writing class ideas
And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
writing novel screenplays
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
writing trying
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
writing people break
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
writing actors
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
writing poetry computer
You can't write poetry on the computer.
writing rocks play
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.
writing thinking way
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
writing want nails
I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or when I'm writing it or when I'm making it, because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.
writing pages made
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.
writing trying genre
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
writing stuff filmmaker
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
writing feet people
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.
writing people screenplays
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
writing heart language
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi
writing addiction
I have a writing addiction. Prince
writing classic old-days
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! Prince Philip
writing letters classic
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?
writing college stories
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. Polly Adler
writing civilization glory
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read. Pliny the Elder
writing conscious
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. Pico Iyer
writing alive way
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing important alive
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing anomalies letters
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
writing parent anomalies
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
written
What I have written, I have written. Pontius Pilate
writing thinking want
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want Mike Gatting
writing musical atmosphere
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. Midge Ure