The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am… — James Spader Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to… — Nick Castle Copy Share Image
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays? — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
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