Cinematic Quote by David Ives

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything…

— Joan Didion

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how…

— Sriram Raghavan

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back…

— Aaron Sorkin

Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when…

— John Cleese

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills…

— Brendan Fletcher

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together. Writing a…

— Stephen Kendrick