Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay.… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on,… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into… — Nate Corddry Copy Share Image
I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I've done some stuff with Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet in the comic world and it was interesting to me how close… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful.… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie 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. Sometimes… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
“Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
![“Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.” quote by Elia Kazan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e73/elia-kazan-6753_360-degrees_some-directors-like-stevens-george-steve_644576.jpg)
![“[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.” quote by Leonardo DiCaprio](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cdf/leonardo-dicaprio-997_character_success-always-starts-with-the-material_1284016.jpg)
![“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and…” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a6b/clint-eastwood-513_book_the-story-for-the-western-genre-is-every_2561060.jpg)
![“[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at the time, and Steve Tisch - now the owner of the New York Giants - found it, loved it, and together we put it together. But I'd say that would be the one I'd tell…” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd3/rob-lowe-855_big-screen_bad-influence-was-david-koepp-s-first-bi_1433397.jpg)
