Believe Quote by David S. Goyer

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have…

— Chuck Palahniuk

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character is. Whereas…

— Graham Phillips

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people…

— Steven Knight

A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to stick to.…

— Steven Knight

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the…

— Nicholas Sparks

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

— Richard LaGravenese

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville