Women are suspicious of this male ritual of the bachelor party and are suspicious of what men do and say when they are not being watched by them. Craig Mazin Read Quote
At some point, and maybe it’s a function of age, you’ve had enough of it. You start to slide in other directions. A lot of comedy writers begin to turn the dial. With me, it was a switch. Comedy off. Drama on. Craig Mazin Read Quote
When you’re writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you’re running out of pages. Craig Mazin Read Quote
There’s a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches – those same old wacky characters! Craig Mazin Read Quote
Comedians who aren’t screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They’re expressing their own view of what they think funny is. Craig Mazin Read Quote
There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it. And then, there are the movies you can’t stop from being made because they just want to be made. Craig Mazin Read Quote
If I don’t know who I’m writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I’m writing for. That’s really the only way to do it. Craig Mazin Read Quote
When I’m writing stuff, I need to watch the scene in my head, like a little movie, or else it just feels stupid. It just feels very written. There are things that actors do and faces they make and pauses they take and their rhythms. You need that. Craig Mazin Read Quote
Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that’s fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it, but on the other hand, I just really want the audience to like it. Craig Mazin Read Quote
Bottom line: nothing of note happened when I was a youngster, really. I went to Princeton, which is where I met my wife. Craig Mazin Read Quote
