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title: "19 Wrote Screenplay Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Wrote Screenplay quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Wrote Screenplay sayings and thoughts."
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> [I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-lauren/i-m-a-big-fan-of-woody-allen-i-used-to-love-the-fact-that-he-wrote/)

[Ralph Lauren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-lauren/)

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> [I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cary-fukunaga/i-started-writing-stories-when-i-was-9-or-10-i-wrote-my-first/)

[Cary Fukunaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cary-fukunaga/)

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> [Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-delpy/never-take-no-for-an-answer-it-took-me-20-years-between-the-time-i/)

[Julie Delpy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-delpy/)

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> [I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/i-wrote-the-screenplay-for-this-is-where-i-leave-you-all-40-drafts-of/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clark-gregg/when-there-wasn-t-a-lot-of-work-i-wrote-a-screenplay-what-lies/)

[Clark Gregg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clark-gregg/)

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> [I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/preston-sturges/i-did-all-my-directing-when-i-wrote-the-screenplay-it-was-probably/)

[Preston Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/preston-sturges/)

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> [Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-schneider/right-when-i-moved-to-l-a-i-started-writing-i-wrote-some-screenplay-i/)

[Dan Schneider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-schneider/)

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> [To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-ricci/to-be-honest-i-don-t-usually-do-very-much-research-especially-if-i-m/)

[Christina Ricci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-ricci/)

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> [I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diablo-cody/i-wrote-a-screenplay-for-a-sweet-valley-high-adaptation-and-it-s/)

[Diablo Cody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diablo-cody/)

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> [I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-price/i-can-never-read-this-book-just-like-i-can-never-see-a-movie-that-i/)

[Richard Price](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-price/)

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> [I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-lutz/i-wrote-my-first-screenplay-on-a-lark-because-it-was-a-storytelling/)

[Lisa Lutz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-lutz/)

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> [I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veena-sud/i-ve-always-been-kind-of-drawn-to-the-extremities-of-human-nature-i/)

[Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veena-sud/)

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> [When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-birbiglia/when-i-wrote-the-screenplay-for-sleepwalk-with-me-i-was-imagining/)

[Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-birbiglia/)

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> [I wanted to make a movie once at Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a cabin, which I now have.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-ivory/i-wanted-to-make-a-movie-once-at-lake-of-the-woods-where-my-parents/)

[James Ivory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-ivory/)

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> [I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-del-toro/i-wrote-a-screenplay-for-the-witches-which-alfonso-cuaron-was/)

[Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-del-toro/)

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> [“Twentieth Century Fox commissioned a screenplay of Bobby Kennedy’s book. Budd Schulberg, the celebrated writer of On the Waterfront, wrote the screenplay,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/twentieth-century-fox-commissioned-a-screenplay-of-bobby-kennedy-s/)

[Charles Brandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-brandt/)

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> [“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-perry/i-was-always-bad-at-reading-scripts-back-then-i-d-be-offered-millions/)

[Matthew Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-perry/)

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> [I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-segal/i-wrote-yellow-submarine-for-the-beatles-i-wrote-the-screenplay-for/)

[Erich Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-segal/)

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> [I wrote the screenplay for 'Water Lilies' while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris, and the director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celine-sciamma/i-wrote-the-screenplay-for-water-lilies-while-i-was-studying/)

[Celine Sciamma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celine-sciamma/)

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                        "text": "I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me.",
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                        "text": "“Twentieth Century Fox commissioned a screenplay of Bobby Kennedy’s book. Budd Schulberg, the celebrated writer of On the Waterfront, wrote the screenplay, but the project was abandoned by the studio. Columbia Pictures then expressed interest in picking up the project but abandoned it as well. In an introduction he wrote to a 1972 book written about Hoffa by Bobby Kennedy’s chief aide, Walter Sheridan, Budd Schulberg explained why the two studios abandoned the project: “A labor tough walked right into the office of the new head of [Twentieth Century Fox] to warn him that if the picture was ever made [Teamster] drivers would refuse to deliver the prints to the theaters. And if they got there by any other means, stink bombs would drive out the audiences.” This”",
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                        "text": "“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the first few pages. I’m embarrassed to admit that now, given that these days I’m writing scripts myself and it’s like pulling teeth to get actors to respond. Maybe they feel how I used to feel: that in a life of fun and fame and money, reading a script, no matter the size of the number attached, feels all too much like school. The universe will teach you, though. All those years I was too this, too that, to read a script, but last year I wrote a screenplay for myself and was trying get it made until I realized that I was too old to play the part. Most fifty-three-year-olds have worked their shit out already, so I needed to hire a thirty-year-old. The one I chose took weeks and weeks to respond, and I couldn’t believe how rude his behavior was.”",
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                        "text": "I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!",
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