Screenplays Quotes · Page 3

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

— Emma Thompson

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

— Sissy Spacek

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

— Gabriel Campisi

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

— Steven Knight

In all my screenplays, I have been exploring various aspects of femininity.

— Anoop Menon

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu…

— Gilda Radner

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker…

— Rebecca Miller

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers…

— Van Morrison

I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to…

— Henry Rollins

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would…

— Joe Shuster

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters…

— Paul Greengrass

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I…

— Christopher Walken

I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need…

— Curtis Hanson

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the…

— Rani Mukerji

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He…

— Denzel Washington

Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is…

— Asghar Farhadi

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why…

— Quentin Tarantino

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a…

— Tim Bevan

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

— James Scott Bell

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

— Serena Williams

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

— Nathan Hale

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

— Bruce Vilanch

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

— John Milius

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

— Bruce Joel Rubin

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

— Anoop Menon

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

— Jon Ronson

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion