64 Quotes by Thomas Lennon

The good thing about being a writer is that you don’t need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you’re not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it’s probably not a business for you anyway.

Don’t write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

That’s the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That’s one thing that’s so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you’ve done.

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.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there’s a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There’s two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that’s what happens.

Being a working person who works for the studios. It’s a minefield and there’s tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You’ve got to do crunches all day long. You’ve got to get up and learn lines.