Screenplay Quotes

94 Screenplay quotes by 84 unique authors

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script… — Preston Sturges
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with… — Charles Dance
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I… — John Sayles
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 myself.… — Elmore Leonard
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as… — Joe Shuster
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story,… — Syd Field
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock… — Syd Field
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to… — Charlie Kaufman
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a… — Paula Patton
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were… — Rupert Sanders
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of… — Tate Taylor
I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the… — Irvine Welsh
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories… — Kerry Washington
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and… — Kerry Washington
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

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