I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays,… — Michael Cristofer Copy Share Image
I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well. — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to… — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
![“In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between…” quote by Johnny Depp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/johnny-depp-658_blather_in-terms-of-it-being-a-first-screenplay_1024129.jpg)
