Couple Quote by Beth Henley

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for…

— Steve Martin

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories…

— Satyajit Ray

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the…

— Tom Perrotta

I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting…

— Emma Donoghue

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm…

— Mara Wilson

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them,…

— Arthur Miller

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid.…

— Jules Feiffer

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn