A Quote by Douglas Booth
For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.
I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.
If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.
I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
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.
If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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