There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters…

A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as…

— Travis Beacham

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says,…

— Thomas Bidegain

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they…

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Frank Miller

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said…

— Nora Ephron

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest…

— Jason Reitman

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

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the…

— Robert Mark Kamen

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

— Brad Pitt

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without…

— Syd Field