Screenwriters Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the…
— Geraldine Brooks
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
— Nick Cave
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I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
— Diablo Cody
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Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The writer…
— Terry Rossio
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Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly…
— Diablo Cody
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A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.
— Peter Straughan
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How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought,…
— Bradford Morrow
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There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become…
— Nora Ephron
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of…
— Joe Eszterhas
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are…
— Christopher Guest
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping…
— Viggo Mortensen
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From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters…
— Jason Reitman
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India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.
— Anurag Kashyap
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Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on.…
— Ryan Kavanaugh
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There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very…
— Callie Khouri
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Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and…
— John Scalzi
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The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
— Tony Gilroy
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There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
Who Wrote These Screenwriters Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Screenwriters Quotes as follows: