Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think. — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot. — Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Lonliness is a bitch, but then so is alimony and child support. - a very disillusioned Apoorva, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF.” — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am… — James Spader Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in… — E.L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I wrote the screenplay for 'Water Lilies' while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris, and the director… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Damian adores being photographed, in fact he likes anything to do with show business. Hes written his first screenplay called Escape! and… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
When I'm directing, I really try not to be tied to anything. I don't even have the sides in my hands. I… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
When you're in pajamas that are sagging in the ass because you've got a battery pack that's weighing them down, and covered… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
“KAUFMAN Sir, what if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don't change, they don't… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
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