Hollywood Writing Quotes

#1. It's more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you're talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?

Josh Lanyon

#2. I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

Suzanne Brockmann

#3. Quite often I reflect on the big house in Hollywood, on 'Midnight Confessions and on Ramon Novarro and on the fact that Roman Polanski and I are godparents to the same child, but writing has not yet helped me to see what it means.

Joan Didion

#4. I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Michael Pena

#5. I've always been sort of entrepreneurial ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

Larry Wilmore

#6. When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

Jenna Fischer

#7. Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

Noah Hawley

#9. Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

George Clooney

#10. I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Stephen Gaghan

#11. I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Joyce DeWitt

#12. Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

James Wan

#13. For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

Douglas Booth

#14. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

Naveen Andrews

#15. I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

Robert Ludlum

#16. The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.

Paul T. Scheuring

#17. He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

Garry Marshall

#18. Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

Paul T. Scheuring

#19. If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

Irving Thalberg

#20. I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Truman Capote

#21. I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Khaled Hosseini

#22. When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#23. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

Scottie Thompson

#24. I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.

Felicia Day

#25. As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.

Paul T. Scheuring

#26. I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

Leonard Mlodinow

#27. Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

Thomas Lennon

#28. It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

Nathan Fillion

#29. In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

William Goldman

#30. There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.

Paul T. Scheuring

#31. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia

#32. It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Paul T. Scheuring

#33. I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.

Russ Lippitt

#34. When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"

Mitch Hedberg

#35. What will you do?"
"Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie."
"What are you going to call it?"
"Hollywood."
"Hollywood?"
"Yes ...

Charles Bukowski

#36. Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Rita Mae Brown

#37. It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.

Paul T. Scheuring

#38. In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

#39. I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood ... I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

Mickey Rooney

#40. With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.

Paul T. Scheuring

#41. I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.

Josh Gad

#42. Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

Eric Braeden