Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.… — David Lynch 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
It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters,… — William Monahan 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
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able… — Jamie Linden Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some… — John August Copy Share Image
One of the series of decisions that the great screenwriter John McNamara made was about who to depict. [Ronald] Reagan had a… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very… — Rod Serling 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
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good… — Peter Straughan Copy Share Image
I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch 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
