Steven Zaillian Quotes

#1. The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

Steven Zaillian

#2. If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Akira Kurosawa

#3. Every morning, look in the mirror.
You are beautiful and wonderful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

Steven Zaillian

#5. I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

Steven Zaillian

#6. The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

#7. Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Brad Pitt

#8. With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

Amitav Ghosh

#9. As rivers feed the ocean,
deeds of kindness feed the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles ... it's a small percentage.

Steven Zaillian

#11. I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

Steven Zaillian

#12. I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Steven Zaillian

#13. The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

Steven Zaillian

#14. Playing basketball with my teammates was a gift! We cant play any more but we live the memories each day!

Theresa Grentz