Direct Quote by Charlie Kaufman

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what…

— John Patrick Shanley

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

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…

— Elmore Leonard

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of…

— Peter Gould

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like…

— Hampton Fancher

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino