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
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.… — John Patrick Shanley 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
It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays? — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
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