Screenplays Quotes · Page 2

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

— Cary Fukunaga

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

— Brian Koppelman

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

— Michael Arndt

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

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

— Ray Bradbury

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

— Richard Attenborough

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a…

— Mara Wilson

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading…

— Rupert Sanders

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…

— Rose Tremain

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing,…

— Kamal Haasan

I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do…

— Jimmi Simpson

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

— Ridley Scott

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And…

— Michael Arndt

In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin…

— Johnny Depp

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard

The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic…

— Todd Farmer

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these…

— Jason Reitman

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little…

— Clark Gregg

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

— Richard Price

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

— Abi Morgan

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

— Richard Russo

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

— Bruce Vilanch

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

— Anoop Menon

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin