India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good… — Peter Straughan Copy Share Image
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful. — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.” — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of… — Robert Alan Aurthur Copy Share Image
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about,… — Lana Condor Copy Share Image
It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good screenwriters can pull interesting films out of the asinine… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I… — John August Copy Share Image
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession. — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible. — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
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
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. — James Frain Copy Share Image
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave 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
