There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. — Paul Thomas Anderson 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
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.” — Mahesh Bhatt 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
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful. — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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 would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
“I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good screenwriters can pull interesting films out of the asinine… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to… — John Logan 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 think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about,… — Lana Condor 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
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
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl 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
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
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
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say… — Brian K. Vaughan 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
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt 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
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible. — Eric Roth Copy Share Image
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. — Tony Gilroy 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
"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
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of… — Robert Alan Aurthur 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
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