My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
I expect 'Paramasivan' to be a big hit because I have given the screenplay a fresh approach. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
“An author is an expert in the written word. The author must make a choice; to either trust and support the filmmaker’s… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“What will you do?" "Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie." "What are you going… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay,… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
“Brick and Blanket could be the names of two characters in a screenplay full of witty dialogue like: Brick: Hello! Blanket: Hi!… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
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“The name fuse followed me from the book to the screenplay, and now I have to live with the name, which I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking about the top five all-time greatest movie kisses. I can't believe I haven't made that list. And I'm thinking about… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet,… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“I knew I was never going to write a screenplay, or a book, or direct a movie. I felt like I was… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
I had done 17 drafts of 'Heyy Babyy' before the final screenplay emerged. It's actually based on the wild lifestyle of a… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
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