Issues Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

— Charlie Kaufman

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

— Charlie Kaufman

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

— John Milius

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

— Jon Ronson

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal…

— David Nicholls

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to…

— Jonathan Raymond

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do…

— Justin Zackham

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

— Obie Trice