Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get… — Frida Farrell Copy Share Image
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got… — Alex Garland 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
Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays,… — Michael Cristofer Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a… — Tim Bevan Copy Share Image
I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.… — Stacy Peralta Copy Share Image
Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead 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've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
![“It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.” quote by Frida Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8d/frida-farrell-55403_book_it-s-my-story-selling-isobel-i-chose-to_1491993.jpg)
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