Top 9 Scot Armstrong Quotes
#1. I just like to write stuff that makes people laugh, stuff that works, a fun movie that everyone can enjoy. I'm not really worried about the packaging, marketing, and what the studios are going to run next.
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#2. Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.
Scot Armstrong
#3. I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.
Scot Armstrong
#4. I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.
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#5. I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.
Scot Armstrong
#6. Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.
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#7. Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.
Scot Armstrong
#8. I've seen some movies where people improvise and will say some bizarre phrase they had heard the other day, and unless it's coming directly from character and the moment they're experiencing and driving the movie forward, then it's always welcome.
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#9. I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters and movies that are just funny and work because they're good and not because they're a slight variation that were hot a few months ago.
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