You have to live a life to become a writer.

- Joel Surnow

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

- 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 wro…

- Joel Surnow

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 y…

- Joel Surnow

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

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 goo…

- Joel Surnow