Screenplay Quotes · Page 5

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

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

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

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that…

— Nicholas Meyer

“[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement." [Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to…

— Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

Bollywood movies ignore screenplay, if you notice whichever movie is a hit has an interesting screenplay.

— Priyadarshan

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get…

— Frida Farrell

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an…

— Brendan I. Koerner

To anybody who considers themself a struggling actor, which is every single guy out here writing their own screenplay, don't give up.…

— Paul Raci

If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is…

— Ayelet Zurer

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a…

— Diablo Cody

Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever…

— Scot Armstrong

I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads…

— Akshay Kumar

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that…

— Barry Eisler

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that…

— Leigh Whannell

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one…

— Augusten Burroughs

In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its…

— Zal Batmanglij

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or…

— Steven Knight

Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it.

— R. Madhavan

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

— Diablo Cody

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you…

— D. J. MacHale

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

— Robert Schwentke

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time…

— Julie Delpy

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for…

— Barry Eisler

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

— Victoria Justice

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache…

— Ashwin Sanghi

During script narrations, if I feel the screenplay mood jumping abruptly, I tell the director, and they work on it.

— Vijay Sethupathi

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost…

— Greta Gerwig