6 Quotes & Sayings By Chris Weitz

Chris Weitz is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He is the co-creator, executive producer, and screenwriter of the film version of Twilight. His first feature film was The Golden Compass for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Charlie St Read more

Cloud along with Kelly Marcel. He co-wrote the screenplay for Twilight along with Melissa Rosenberg. The two won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for their work on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

More recently, he wrote the screenplay for New Moon, which earned him a nomination at the 84th Academy Awards.

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Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history. Chris Weitz
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And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Chris Weitz
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An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted. Chris Weitz
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'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. Chris Weitz
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It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film. Chris Weitz