Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Allan Loeb

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Allan Loeb.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Allan Loeb

Allan Loeb is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote the 2007 film Things We Lost in the Fire and created the 2008 television series New Amsterdam. He wrote the film drama 21, which also was released in 2008. Among his other credits, he wrote and produced The Switch (2010). He also co-wrote Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and wrote The Dilemma (2011), and Just Go with It (2011). He performed a rewrite for the musical Rock of Ages (2012), and the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom (2012).

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard. — © Allan Loeb
I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.
I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.
I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
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