Screenplay Quotes

94 quotes by 84 authors

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something… — Shailene Woodley
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only… — Gene Hackman
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication.… — Robert B. Parker
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that… — James Spader
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video… — Alfonso Cuaron
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do… — Stephen Chbosky
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think… — Bret Easton Ellis
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker.… — Francis Ford Coppola
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing… — Kelly Jones
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ..… — Emma Thompson
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to… — Elia Kazan
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing.… — William Gibson
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. — Francis Ford Coppola
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar… — Jacques Derrida
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your… — Nora Ephron
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you… — Tom Hardy
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay… — Tom Hiddleston
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens.… — John Irving
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well. — Victoria Justice

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