“The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)” — Oliver Stone 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
If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for… — Quentin Tarantino 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
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
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott 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
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
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am… — James Spader 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
In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He… — Denzel Washington 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 really hate people that spoil stuff by putting scripts online. I don't mind so much people that do movie spoilers when… — Craig Mazin 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
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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