All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother… — Nora Ephron 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
Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice. — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and… — Thomas Bidegain 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
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
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
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful. — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I… — John August Copy Share Image
