Blank Quote by Charles Busch

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the…

— Ewan McGregor

It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And,…

— David Rabe

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have…

— Woody Allen

My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions…

— Clive Owen

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and…

— Michael Sheen

With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting…

— George Saunders

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen

Sometimes you read the script and you feel that this is a challenging role but at times you feel that this one was written…

— Rasika Dugal

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

— Judi Dench