There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
