Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays? — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part… — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to… — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
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