Screenplay Quotes

94 Screenplay quotes by 84 unique authors

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
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay. — Elmore Leonard
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or… — Hilary Mantel
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can… — Josh Radnor
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was… — Harold Ramis
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down. — Salman Rushdie
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if… — Hugo Weaving
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find… — Al Yankovic
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back,… — Woody Allen
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little… — Patrick Rothfuss
I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads even before they… — Akshay Kumar
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to… — Salman Khan
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of… — Rani Mukerji
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion

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