Screenplay Quotes · Page 4

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get…

— Frida Farrell

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one…

— Augusten Burroughs

In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its…

— Zal Batmanglij

Bollywood movies ignore screenplay, if you notice whichever movie is a hit has an interesting screenplay.

— Priyadarshan

I've often said that I can forgive a shoddy screenplay or bad acting, but I can never forgive bad politics.

— Kabir Khan

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then,…

— Sylvester Stallone

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

— Joey Lauren Adams

If you are thrilled about a screenplay, execution never becomes a problem, so that's the way I have achieved 75 films.

— Priyadarshan

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar…

— Michael Koryta

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I…

— Hampton Fancher

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in…

— Ridley Scott

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do…

— Leigh Whannell

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.…

— Donald Miller

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while…

— Kelly Jones

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'…

— Erich Segal

“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from…

— Earl Devere

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

— Akira Kurosawa

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

— Sajid Khan

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that,…

— Kyle Mooney

“A cup of tea would restore my normality." [ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay ]”

— Douglas Adams

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.…

— John Patrick Shanley

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

— Richard Russo

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's…

— Hampton Fancher

Writing is like driving a car. Writing the beats of a screenplay? It's like driving a rover on Mars. You have to…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer…

— Bill Paxton

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or…

— Andrew Vachss

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than…

— William Monahan

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're…

— Miguel Nicolelis

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with…

— Dianna Agron

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in…

— Ralph Lauren

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life…

— Mimi Pond

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

— Abi Morgan