Screenplay Quotes · Page 4

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with…

— Dianna Agron

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in…

— Ralph Lauren

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't…

— Meg Cabot

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias…

— Alexandra Petri

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

— Diablo Cody

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

— Nick Hornby

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan…

— Kerry Washington

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to…

— John Irving

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important…

— Quentin Tarantino

When I write a screenplay - and I think it's one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to…

— James Gunn

I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The…

— Guillermo del Toro

'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and…

— Rob Liefeld

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but…

— Harold Ramis

I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's…

— Michael Landon, Jr

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called…

— William Monahan

The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic…

— Todd Farmer

“In a movie, people only talk when they want something. If your characters are not pursuing their needs in the scene, they…

— Dan Joseph Decker

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

— Christopher Darden

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had…

— Tony Kushner

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing…

— Guillermo del Toro

When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.

— Phyllida Lloyd

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as…

— Chris Colfer

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that,…

— Kyle Mooney

“A cup of tea would restore my normality." [ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay ]”

— Douglas Adams

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

— Richard Russo

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.…

— John Patrick Shanley

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

— Sajid Khan

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

— Joey Lauren Adams

If you are thrilled about a screenplay, execution never becomes a problem, so that's the way I have achieved 75 films.

— Priyadarshan

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then,…

— Sylvester Stallone

I've often said that I can forgive a shoddy screenplay or bad acting, but I can never forgive bad politics.

— Kabir Khan

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than…

— William Monahan

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or…

— Andrew Vachss

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman