Screenplays Quotes · Page 2

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

— Neil LaBute

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

— Rachel Griffiths

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

— Todd Barry

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

— Robert McKee

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

— Michael Arndt

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

— Brian Koppelman

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got…

— Alex Garland

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

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that…

— Jacques Derrida

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar…

— Zach Braff

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I…

— Blake Jenner

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff…

— Al Pacino

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

— Diablo Cody

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just…

— Patrick Marber

“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a…

— Guillermo del Toro

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around.…

— Daniel Clowes

It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the…

— Johnny Depp

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a…

— William Monahan

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language…

— Rod Serling

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

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

First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared…

— Curtis Hanson

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill…

— Stephen Harrigan

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And…

— Nora Ephron

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

— Charlie Kaufman

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.

— Oliver Stone

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

— Diablo Cody

Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

— Christopher Darden

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton