It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what… — Justin Zackham Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world.… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time,… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
The reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction: My son Aditya made Mohabbatein (2000), which took a lot of time and energy.… — Yash Chopra Copy Share Image
I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out… — John August Copy Share Image
Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you… — Rod Serling 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
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going… — John Logan Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story.… — Mark Strickson Copy Share Image
I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
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Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition,… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
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