God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay.… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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