Screenplays Quotes

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

— Scott Derrickson

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

— Emma Thompson

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

— Sissy Spacek

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

— Gabriel Campisi

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as…

— Sonia Braga

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at…

— Michael Arndt

I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't…

— Jessica Alba

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

— Albert Brooks

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.…

— Syd Field

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so…

— Joe Wright

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of…

— Roger Ebert

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

Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics…

— Dolph Lundgren

You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop…

— Louis Leterrier

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something…

— Shailene Woodley

Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to…

— Patrick Rothfuss

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that…

— Kerry Washington

When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in…

— Gillian Jacobs

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and…

— Daniel Clowes

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches…

— Rob Lowe

This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially…

— Rhys Darby

“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from…

— Stephen Galloway

I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were…

— Alan Moore

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

“But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared…

— Curtis Hanson

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill…

— Stephen Harrigan

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And…

— Nora Ephron

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

— Charlie Kaufman

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.

— Oliver Stone