You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
“But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And… — Nora Ephron 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want… — Matt Damon 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 find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and… — Arthur Miller 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
The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some… — John August Copy Share Image
