Screenplay Quotes · Page 5

“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

I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.

— R. Madhavan

I expect 'Paramasivan' to be a big hit because I have given the screenplay a fresh approach.

— P. Vasu

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

“What will you do?" "Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie." "What are you going…

— Charles Bukowski

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer…

— Bill Paxton

Writing is like driving a car. Writing the beats of a screenplay? It's like driving a rover on Mars. You have to…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's…

— Hampton Fancher

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a…

— Tim Bevan

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters…

— Paul Greengrass

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

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering…

— Jane Goldman

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing…

— Denis Villeneuve

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

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on…

— Tate Taylor

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part…

— Christian Keiber

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

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

— William Monahan

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

— Graeme Simsion

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

— Robert Altman

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Priyadarshan

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

— Joey Lauren Adams

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

— Kabir Khan

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— John Patrick Shanley

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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Kyle Mooney

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Sajid Khan

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

— Christopher Darden

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

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

— Phyllida Lloyd

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

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

— Tony Kushner

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

— Alexandra Petri

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

“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