When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy,… — Ernest Cline 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
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
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
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
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
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
There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and… — Daniel Clowes 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
“As I've often observed and remarked: the most gifted screenwriters can concoct believable monsters, deviants, heroes, regular-joes, atheists, agnostics, all sorts of… — Dan Phillips 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 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
Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
