I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays. — Diablo Cody 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
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
It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as… — Sonia Braga 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 get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren 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
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches… — Rob Lowe 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
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 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
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
“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from… — Stephen Galloway Copy Share Image
I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
