When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
“[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into… — Nate Corddry 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
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
