Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San…

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

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

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz