I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a… — Tim Bevan Copy Share Image
I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.… — Stacy Peralta Copy Share Image
In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly 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
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to… — Nick Castle Copy Share Image
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene… — David Twohy 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
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![“In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."” quote by Denzel Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c2b/denzel-washington-1345_august_in-2009-scott-rudin-sent-me-august-s-wil_1954686.jpg)
![“I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ec/steven-knight-2205_happens_i-always-thought-it-would-never-happen-a_932011.jpg)
