Hollywood Writing Quotes

“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, The Far Shore

“Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“In prose, when you wrote something, it's symphonic… There's something ethereal in that process that's euphoric.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.”
― Paul T. Scheuring, The Far Shore

“When writing a novel, the only real constraint is how far you want to go with your ideas. With movie scripts, you have time and budgetary constraints. For example, if your screenplay is set entirely at night, you've just doubled the cost of the movie. Novels can indulge all five senses, but Film is a visual medium that usurps the novelist's tool of narration through voice-over to add depth and perspective.”
― Stewart Stafford