Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“You may initially find yourself at a point of re-convincing that there could be a positive twist, and that's okay. Suspense naturally… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it! — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he… — Bun B Copy Share Image
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“[G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand… — Kate Wright Copy Share Image
“I think, because…well, I like the idea of coming up with a story that never existed before, but I don’t really want… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what… — Justin Zackham Copy Share Image
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
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