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title: "6 Screenplay Wrote Quotes by 6 authors"
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> ['Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-cline/fanboys-was-the-first-real-screenplay-that-i-ever-wrote-that-was-an/)

[Ernest Cline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-cline/)

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> [First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/first-there-has-been-a-lot-of-interest-in-the-drive-in-but-alas-it/)

[Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/)

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> [I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-segal/i-wrote-yellow-submarine-for-the-beatles-i-wrote-the-screenplay-for/)

[Erich Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-segal/)

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> [The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-ramis/the-first-comedy-screenplay-that-i-wrote-was-animal-house-and-i/)

[Harold Ramis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-ramis/)

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> [Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scot-armstrong/once-i-was-in-college-i-was-actually-trying-to-write-a-comedy/)

[Scot Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scot-armstrong/)

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> [I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-wright/i-found-after-the-experience-of-making-shaun-of-the-dead-and-then/)

[Edgar Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-wright/)

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