Big deal Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a…

— Amy Holden Jones

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission. I've had…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

— Mary Steenburgen

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure…

— Henry Selick

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too…

— Nick Hornby

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have…

— Vetrimaaran