I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

- Steven Zaillian

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

- Steven Zaillian

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start maki…

- Steven Zaillian

You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time …

- Steven Zaillian

I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like there was a good reason why they were not made…

- Steven Zaillian

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

- Steven Zaillian

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do…

- Steven Zaillian

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

- Steven Zaillian