If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever… — Scot Armstrong 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. Sometimes… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on,… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful.… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not… — William Goldman 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
I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
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
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars"… — Alfred Gough 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
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson 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
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of… — Donald Margulies 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
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.… — Craig Lucas Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that."… — Daniel Clowes 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
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
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that… — Deon Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never… — Elmore Leonard 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
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
![“It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I…” quote by Denzel Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c64/denzel-washington-1345_august_it-just-happened-that-we-did-fences-seve_1828104.jpg)
![“Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/a-r-rahman-4481_cutting_since-i-worked-with-danny-boyle-before-o_539.jpg)
![“The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting with Brad [Pitt], just around the time that he was making World War Z. I basically told him the story and said, "This is what I want to do," and he really responded, so that…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e8/steven-knight-2205_able_the-time-came-where-i-was-able-to-write_1110760.jpg)
