Tag Archives: Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. Jonathan Tropper

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle. Jonathan Tropper

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living. Jonathan Tropper

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

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? Jonathan Tropper

'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

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. Jonathan Tropper

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

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

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. Jonathan Tropper