Screenwriter Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

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
If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably… — Derek Sivers
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else… — Julia Cameron
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a… — Aravind Adiga
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons. — James Frey
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. — Tony Gilroy
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter. — Tony Gilroy
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the… — David Benioff
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with.… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. — Tom Schulman
The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in… — David Benioff
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills… — Tina Fey
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those… — Alice Hoffman
To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward.… — J. Michael Straczynski
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting… — Richard Russo
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. — John Francis Daley
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist. — Sadie Jones
As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which… — Philippa Boyens
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

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