Finish Quote by David Lowery

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets…

— Quentin Tarantino

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

— Neil Jordan

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story…

— Maggie Carey

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision…

— J. J. Abrams

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

— Mitch Glazer

When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You need to…

— Jacques Audiard

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people…

— Elmore Leonard

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

— Richard Russo