The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay.… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. It's more that… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
I play Edward G. Robinson [in Trumbo], who was a close friend and a co-worker of Dalton's [Trumbo]. They worked together on… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there.… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into… — Nate Corddry Copy Share Image
I've done some stuff with Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet in the comic world and it was interesting to me how close… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ...… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
![“I play Edward G. Robinson [in Trumbo], who was a close friend and a co-worker of Dalton's [Trumbo]. They worked together on at least one or two screenplays. A lot of these stories take famous people and show you who they are behind the scenes, which is kind of fun. One of the things about getting…” quote by Michael Stuhlbarg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a4/michael-stuhlbarg-12244_behind-the-scenes_i-play-edward-g-robinson-in-trumbo-who-w_2468890.jpg)
![“He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople]... Perfect as you can be.” quote by Rhys Darby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/833/rhys-darby-12111_couple_he-taika-watiti-worked-on-this-screenpla_2074685.jpg)
![“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.” quote by Emma Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/93d/emma-thompson-3232_adaptation_hugh-laurie-playing-mr-palmer-felt-the-l_2393746.jpg)
