Joel Surnow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You have to live a life to become a writer.
-- Joel Surnow
A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.
-- Joel Surnow

#Good Movie #Needs #Scripts
A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.
-- Joel Surnow

#Good Movie #Dramatic #Scene
One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.
-- Joel Surnow

#Nice #Moving #Tv Shows
I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.
-- Joel Surnow

#Independent #Fighting #Ideas
Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.
-- Joel Surnow

#Life #World #Blame

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