Beauty Quote by Allan Loeb

I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an…

— Allan Loeb

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

— Curtis Hanson

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar,…

— Mark Millar

What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

— Kanika Dhillon

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

— Catherine Deneuve

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read…

— Robert Eggers

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

— Ang Lee