“An author is an expert in the written word. The author must make a choice; to either trust and support the filmmaker’s… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic… — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of… — Ravi Teja Copy Share Image
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
“I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in… — E.L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep. — Michael Cristofer Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
“I sold him the house, if you want to know.” “Maybe I’ll buy it back, when I sell my screenplay.” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a… — Tim Bevan Copy Share Image
I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.… — Stacy Peralta Copy Share Image
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
I recently found out that the print of my first film 'Utrada Rathri,' released in 1978, is damaged beyond repair. So the… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
If you want me to perform in Silver Lake - where it looks like 'Vice' magazine threw up everywhere, where all the… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so… — Valerie Faris Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
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