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
Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:… — Takeshi Kitano 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
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
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
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin 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
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert 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
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 want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin 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
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams 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
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
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
When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little… — Clark Gregg 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
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty 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
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