My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in…

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

— Sadie Jones

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of…

— Stephen Gaghan

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.

— Max Cavalera

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

— Tony Judt

I grew up in a world where stories and images were made and told by men. So I know this world very well. I…

— Celine Sciamma

When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem,…

— Paul Wall

I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.

— Johan Renck

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

— Fareed Zakaria

I was a boy that grew up in front of the world on television. Now I'm a man.

— Drew McIntyre

As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to give it.

— Celine Sciamma

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's…

— Nigel Kneale

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being…

— Melissa Rosenberg

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

— Frank Miller

A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down…

— Steven Pressfield