Always Quote by David Leslie Johnson

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

— Bruce Feirstein

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with…

— Ryan Coogler

I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be…

— David Labrava

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year,…

— Harmony Korine

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff,…

— Lena Waithe

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

— Damien Chazelle