Screenwriting Quote #162 (Billy Ray)

“I’m a dinosaur. The things that I’m trying to achieve are not things that are terribly valued in my business. The window of opportunity for the movies that interest me is literally getting narrower and narrower by the day. If I could be happy making comic book movies, my life would be a lot easier. If I could roll out of bed and come up with an idea as singular as, ‘There’s a bomb on the bus, and if it goes less than fifty miles an hour, it blows up,’ my life would be easier. But I don’t think up ideas as good as Speed, and I’m not turned on by movies that are just sort of glorified comic books.”
Screenwriter Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play)
Tales from the Script Edited by Peter Hanson and Paul Robert Herman