Screenplays Quotes

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

— Ray Bradbury

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

— Scott Derrickson

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

— Max von Sydow

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

— Alexander Payne

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

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

— Richard Attenborough

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

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

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

— Diablo Cody

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time…

— Julie Delpy

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read,…

— Chuck Norris

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if…

— Aaron Sorkin

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read…

— Lone Scherfig

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

— Robert Schwentke

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do…

— Stephen Gaghan

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

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...…

— Paul Schrader

In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about…

— Elia Kazan

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John…

— Francis Ford Coppola

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of…

— David Nicholls

It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so…

— Matt Damon

I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were…

— Alan Moore

I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even…

— Robert Evans

“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

“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from…

— Stephen Galloway

This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially…

— Rhys Darby

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a…

— Michael Scott

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

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

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

— Kara Hayward

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino