Draft Quote by Alex Garland

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

— Sonoya Mizuno

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

I've never made a film where I don't have final cut. And I can't imagine doing that. That just seems like it would be…

— Kelly Reichardt

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action…

— Sylvester Stallone

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on…

— John Crowley

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

— Andy Muschietti

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked…

— Jason Biggs

Mainstream or budget films don't matter to me. What matters is the script, the director and the part, not necessarily in that order though.

— Ranvir Shorey

You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one, instead of…

— James Ivory

It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.

— Priyadarshan

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and…

— Mark Boal