Screenwriting Quotes · Page 2

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

— Billy Bob Thornton

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

— Jon Ronson

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

— Bret Easton Ellis

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

— Nunnally Johnson

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

— Ridley Scott

Screenwriting is about condensing.

— Nick Hornby

“Plot is a by-product of Character.”

— Dan Joseph Decker

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

— George Cukor

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

— Simon Beaufoy

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

— Michael Arndt

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

— James L. Brooks

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

— Brian Koppelman

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

— Asghar Farhadi

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

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done…

— Tom Stoppard

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an…

— John Francis Daley

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts…

— Evan Daugherty

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

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is…

— David Benioff

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a…

— Thomas Lennon

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

I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've…

— Wentworth Miller

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings…

— Mike Birbiglia

The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are…

— Jonathan Tropper

“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

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid…

— Billy Wilder

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

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting…

— Scott Frank

“One of the worst parts about working in entertainment is that there’s so much you’re expected to have seen. Oh, you’re a…

— Jenny Trout

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

— Ewan McGregor

“The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

The script is what you've dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

— George Lucas

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

— Chris Hayes

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

— Tobias Lindholm

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

— Alfred Hitchcock

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

— John Irving