“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.” — Chester Elijiah Branch Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words? — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in… — Richard Toscan Copy Share Image
Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot. — Tim Bevan Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
It's very important for an audience to know where they are and why they are there in a musical. It allows them… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
