I had done 17 drafts of 'Heyy Babyy' before the final screenplay emerged. It's actually based on the wild lifestyle of a… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Brick and Blanket could be the names of two characters in a screenplay full of witty dialogue like: Brick: Hello! Blanket: Hi!… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay,… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in… — E.L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say… — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
