It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there.… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
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