Screenplays Quotes · Page 7

Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer…

— Raymond Chandler

[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at…

— Rob Lowe

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

— Charlie Kaufman

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

— Richard Attenborough

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

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All…

— James Cameron

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

— Kara Hayward

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

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting…

— Emma Thompson

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

— Bruce Joel Rubin

'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

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 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

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

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

— Diablo Cody

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

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

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

— James Scott Bell

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

“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

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

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

— Jim Shepard

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

— Victoria Justice

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones…

— Woody Allen