Screenplay Quotes · Page 3

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

— Paresh Rawal

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

— Yahoo Serious

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

— Peter Hedges

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

— Beatrice Dalle

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for…

— Barry Eisler

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

— Victoria Justice

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you…

— D. J. MacHale

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

— Diablo Cody

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or…

— Steven Knight

Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it.

— R. Madhavan

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic…

— David Seltzer

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like…

— Tom Hardy

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that…

— Ziad Doueiri

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of…

— Ravi Teja

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write…

— Philippe Claudel

“What” and “if” are two words as non-threatening as words can be, but put them together side by side and they have…

— Carrie Green

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the…

— Harrison Ford

I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the…

— Todd Farmer

End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she…

— Woody Allen

“Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not…

— William Goldman

A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of…

— Nicholas Sparks

I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios…

— Alexander Payne

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have…

— Elmore Leonard

“Due to budget constraints I've rewritten the script, condensing all four of the Twilight Opuses into one epic screenplay. We'll shoot it…

— Lola Salt

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense…

— William Monahan

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time…

— Julie Delpy

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

— Robert Schwentke

“[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement." [Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to…

— Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that…

— Nicholas Meyer

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian