Lorene Scafaria Quotes

“For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.”

— Lorene Scafaria

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity ... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

— Lorene Scafaria

“I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Routine is part of coping.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.”

— Lorene Scafaria

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

— Lorene Scafaria

“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.”

— Lorene Scafaria

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

— Lorene Scafaria

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

— Lorene Scafaria

“In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact' ... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Don't compromise when you're right.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.”

— Lorene Scafaria

“Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?”

— Lorene Scafaria