You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats. — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
