Effort Quote by Daniel Clowes

Among close friends and family members, I say whatever I want to. But, as a filmmaker, I have my responsibilities, and I have to…

— Sajid Khan

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce…

— Kerry Washington

As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is…

— James Watkins

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you…

— Lorene Scafaria

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and…

— Rainn Wilson

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it…

— Victor Levin

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give…

— Charles Roven

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all…

— Juliette Lewis

The first time I read a script, I always read it as an audience as opposed to looking at it for a role right…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole…

— David Ayer

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos