You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's… — Jeffrey DeMunn Copy Share Image
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta… — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to do is having someone get behind a Montgomery Clift biopic, and then just do the first… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I felt like the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was so clear. It was sort of… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
Today, most big stars want scripts to be written in a particular way, show them in a certain light. They want people… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on.… — Ellen Wong Copy Share Image
The woman who wrote the movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains], her name is Nancy Dowd. She's a wonderful writer. She… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Having just read the script [Havenhurst] and then add having seen a ghost, I went to Andrew [Erin], and I was, like,… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,'… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down.… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
I want to do something where the script is there. That doesn't mean that I won't need to come in, or be… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
![“Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a…” quote by Nate Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9a/nate-parker-10210_alex_far-too-often-scripts-are-being-written_1667453.jpg)
![“I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that…” quote by Colin Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f53/colin-farrell-2887_america_i-ll-wait-to-see-what-the-film-the-lobst_3018250.jpg)
![“All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you…” quote by Alexander Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be3/alexander-payne-5223_acting_all-three-parts-of-filmmaking-writing-sh_1546501.jpg)
![“I felt like the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was so clear. It was sort of packed full of information. [Macon Blair] puts in a lot of discussion in the script. Characters are introduced very thoughtfully. The way he described walking into particular environments was very…” quote by Melanie Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b3/melanie-lynskey-11682_blair_i-felt-like-the-script-of-i-don-t-feel-a_2632310.jpg)
![“The woman who wrote the movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains], her name is Nancy Dowd. She's a wonderful writer. She wrote Coming Home. And when I read the script, at that time, I thought, "This movie is going to do for girls what Breaking Away did for boys." I thought it was going to…” quote by Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c41/brent-spiner-2999_boys_the-woman-who-wrote-the-movie-ladies-and_2108928.jpg)
![“Having just read the script [Havenhurst] and then add having seen a ghost, I went to Andrew [Erin], and I was, like, "Okay, I have to do this movie. I just have to! I don't know why, but I just have to do it." And I ended up getting the role.” quote by Julie Benz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b97/julie-benz-7666_add_having-just-read-the-script-havenhurst-a_2252642.jpg)
![“You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.” quote by Hugh Bonneville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/137/hugh-bonneville-22027_abbey_you-have-no-idea-what-s-going-to-happen_2423535.jpg)
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
