Control Quote by Carrie Brownstein

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

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page…

— John Ridley

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

— Taiye Selasi

I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.…

— Robert Evans

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay,…

— Philippe Claudel

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to…

— Meg Cabot

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

One really can't control or think about the reaction of the audience because you're so steeped in trying to get what you feel is…

— David Nutter

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

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

— Prabhu Deva

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman