Screenplays Quotes · Page 2

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

— Diablo Cody

Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

— Christopher Darden

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

— Kara Hayward

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

— Robert McKee

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

— Neil LaBute

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those…

— Bruce Vilanch

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

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

— Barry Eisler

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

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let…

— Irving Thalberg

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and…

— Arthur Miller

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing…

— Charlie Kaufman

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In…

— Howard Gordon

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because…

— Sam Mendes

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

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 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

Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my…

— Michael Landon, Jr

The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And…

— Michael Arndt

I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place…

— Robert Zemeckis

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

— Takeshi Kitano

First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer…

— Raymond Chandler

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a…

— Michael Scott

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to…

— Steve Martin

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

— Charlie Kaufman

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

— Akira Kurosawa

Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in…

— Terrence Rafferty

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

— Rachel Griffiths

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

— Todd Barry

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

— Michael Arndt

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

— Cary Fukunaga

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

— Brian Koppelman

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

— Max von Sydow

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

— Alexander Payne