“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“CUT! ... Cut... ... FUCKING CUT IT! … Where is the fucking screenplay?” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case. — Nathan Hale 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
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not… — David Lowery 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
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I was doing the screenplay, people who read the book Call Me by Your Name would go, "Oh god, what are… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“What” and “if” are two words as non-threatening as words can be, but put them together side by side and they have… — Carrie Green Copy Share Image
I love writing. When I finish a script, it's a joy to sit down and go all the way through it. It's… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Norman Bates: ... No one really runs away from anything. It's like a private trap that holds us in like a prison.… — Joseph Stephano Copy Share Image
The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process.… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image