“Actually having sex with a screenwriter typically led to a blockbuster.” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible. — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter. — Christopher Markus Copy Share Image
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr.… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the worst parts about working in entertainment is that there’s so much you’re expected to have seen. Oh, you’re a… — Jenny Trout Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I think screenwriter Steve Kloves does such a difficult job. And he does a bloody brilliant job, too. Transferring these Harry Potter… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
The spotlight was on me. I pretended it wasn't, but it was, and for every wrong reason. It was all about money,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, 'This is what my day is like,' it would… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives,… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
