My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles… — Matthew Specktor 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 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
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 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
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job. — Robbie Coltrane Copy Share Image
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to… — Albert Brooks 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
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
They say the pen is mightier than the sword and I would like to have the ability to write things down and… — Olafur Darri Olafsson Copy Share Image
The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter,… — James Ivory 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
I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are… — Ernest Lehman 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
When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote… — Michael Hirst 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
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 want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards 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
Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone. — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician. — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.” — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. — Tony Gilroy 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 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
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader 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
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
