Disagree Quote by Aaron Sorkin

“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”

— Darlene Craviotto

“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.”

— Don Roff

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

— Robert Schwentke

“Dialogue isn’t a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.”

— Oli Anderson

You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure…

— Rebecca Hall

“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and…

— Ed Catmull

Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've…

— William H. Macy

“It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!”

— Martha Sweeney

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

— Carrie Coon

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise…

— Debra Granik

I think that's when I get excited in the writers' room - when people are yelling back and forth at each other.

— Misha Green