Simon Kinberg
Simon Kinberg
Simon David Kinberg is a British-born American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for his work on the X-Men film franchise, and has also written such films as Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. He has served as a producer on others including Cinderella, and The Martian, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. His production company is Genre Films, which has a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth2 August 1973
Simon Kinberg quotes about
character track challenges
The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.
school years lasts
I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies.
book comic-book comic
There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.