Screenplays Quotes · Page 4

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

— Richard Russo

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

— Andrew Dominik

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

— Richard Price

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get…

— Frida Farrell

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that…

— Nicholas Meyer

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't…

— Ayelet Zurer

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music…

— Nick Cave

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing,…

— Kamal Haasan

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…

— Rose Tremain

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones…

— Woody Allen

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading…

— Rupert Sanders

I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.…

— Stacy Peralta

The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're…

— Ricky Gervais

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on…

— Tate Taylor

As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,…

— Andrew Neel

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part…

— Christian Keiber

I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The…

— Veena Sud

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing…

— Tim Cummings

One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

— Diablo Cody

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

— Abi Morgan

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay…

— Christopher McQuarrie

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty…

— Nicholas Sparks

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When…

— Joss Whedon

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a…

— Mara Wilson

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

— Ridley Scott

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

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a…

— Emily Mortimer

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also…

— Robby Benson

I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case…

— Ben Affleck

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to…

— Howard Shore

I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do…

— Jimmi Simpson