I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely…

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

— John C. Reilly

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 like screenwriting…

— John C. Reilly

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

I'm lucky I actually make a living making music.

— John Rzeznik

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

— Amy Lowell

I was very lucky because I actually ended up playing with all of my role models in women's football: Kelly Smith, Alex Scott, Rachel…

— Leah Williamson

People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.

— Emma Corrin

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after…

— Taiye Selasi

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

— Itzhak Perlman

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— Samuel Fuller

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to…

— Mara Brock Akil

“The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my…

— Evan Daugherty

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