Screenwriters Quotes · Page 2

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

— Groucho Marx

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

— Leigh Whannell

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you…

— Matt Damon

I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really…

— Leigh Whannell

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

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do…

— Tony Kushner

You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter…

— Reese Witherspoon

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just…

— Gene Roddenberry

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go…

— Geraldine Brooks

Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get…

— Leigh Whannell

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing…

— Stan Lee

“Her friendships were as legendary as her stories and some of the best were with her fellow writers for during the teens,…

— Cari Beauchamp

I knew that [director/screenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern…

— Karla Souza

The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in…

— Tom Cole

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How…

— Margaret MacMillan

Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love…

— John Patrick Shanley

If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues…

— Derek Sivers

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

— Diablo Cody

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to…

— Albert Brooks

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

— Mahesh Bhatt

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

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

— Anurag Kashyap

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

— Christopher Markus

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

— Frank Miller

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

— Ayn Rand

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

— Tom Schulman

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

— Robert Rodriguez

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