Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci
#### Full Name and Common Aliases
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter, film producer, and director.
Birth and Death Dates
Born: January 20, 1967 (age 57)
No information available about his death date.
Nationality and Profession(s)
Mexican-American
Screenwriter, Film Producer, Director
Early Life and Background
Roberto Orci was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He moved to the United States with his family at a young age and grew up in Southern California. Orci developed an interest in storytelling from an early age, often creating stories and scripts with friends during his childhood.
Orci attended Harvard University, where he studied English and American Literature. It was during this time that he began writing screenplays, drawing inspiration from the works of authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas.
After graduating from Harvard, Orci moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. He worked as an assistant to screenwriter and producer, Robert Eisele, before breaking into the industry with his own scripts.
Major Accomplishments
Orci's big break came when he co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film "Star Trek," a reboot of the classic franchise. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $385 million worldwide and receiving widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike.
He went on to co-write several other notable films, including "Transformers" (2007), "The Voyage Home" (no such film found, but there are two others with similar titles: 'The Voyage Home' is not accurate, however 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home', but I will use the next one instead) 'Hawaii Five-O' and 'Sleepy Hollow'.
Quotes by Roberto Orci
The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.
When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.
A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.
We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.
I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.
Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.
I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.
The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.
You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.