#writ

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#i #i do #political #tracts #want

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #deal #deliver #done #everything

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.' ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#dear #doing #elementary #elementary school #go

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#am #amazed #fact #i #i am

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #stuff #torments #try #us

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#business #columnist #gossip #his #none

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. ↗