If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie. — Bruce Joel Rubin Copy Share Image
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga 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
I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject. — Anoop Menon Copy Share Image
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also… — Robby Benson Copy Share Image
I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays,… — Michael Cristofer Copy Share Image
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am… — James Spader Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
In all my screenplays, I have been exploring various aspects of femininity. — Anoop Menon Copy Share Image
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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