I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value. — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
“Cathedral terminology was like stage directions—totally counterintuitive.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it… — Edgar Wright 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
All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can,… — William H. Macy 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
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“I suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image