Doctoring Quote by David S. Goyer

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

— Nia Vardalos

Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me…

— Michael Eklund

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

— Jared Harris

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It…

— D. B. Weiss

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

— Anne Perry

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I…

— Liana Liberato

The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the…

— Whit Stillman