You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. Jonathan Tropper More Quotes by Jonathan Tropper More Quotes From Jonathan Tropper I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do. Jonathan Tropper screenwriting hoping-for-the-best lines Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people. Jonathan Tropper mean book people The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie. Jonathan Tropper elements purpose doe I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch. Jonathan Tropper crutches fans thinking You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you. Jonathan Tropper important hero character It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression. Jonathan Tropper heart character book Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing. Jonathan Tropper pieces writing character Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue. Jonathan Tropper costumes jobs character When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. Jonathan Tropper blues first piano evil I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. Jonathan Tropper wrote leave where you Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. Jonathan Tropper your own child book 'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced. Jonathan Tropper pretty movies something try I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko. Jonathan Tropper think age love men I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky. Jonathan Tropper help never band lucky On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order. Jonathan Tropper going through you individual I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it. Jonathan Tropper find everything humor people Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty. Jonathan Tropper you funny father death There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes. Jonathan Tropper really something you satisfying I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. Jonathan Tropper movies bad good action Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are. Jonathan Tropper nobody you honesty life
