What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in… — John Patrick Shanley 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
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
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
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey 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
“To this day I have a profound mistrust of the word processor. I have to type it or write it first, screen… — Shane Black 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
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. — James Frain Copy Share Image
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere. — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon 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
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
I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium. — Kanika Dhillon 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
Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write… — Morley 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 always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. — Cameron Crowe 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
What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a… — James Gray 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
You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
