Screenplay Quotes

94 quotes by 84 authors

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it. — Rita Mae Brown
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. — Diablo Cody
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious. — Diablo Cody
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded… — Diablo Cody
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts… — Diablo Cody
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to… — Chris Colfer
I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me. — Dianna Agron
I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay. — Emma Thompson
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. — Richard Attenborough
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I… — William Baldwin
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers… — Roger Ebert
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film — Todd Barry
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. — Kate DiCamillo
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. — Richard Russo
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement, — Barry Eisler
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely… — Nicholas Meyer
I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay… — Zach Braff
I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a baby every day,… — Michael Scott

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