Conditions Quote by Deepa Mehta

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions…

— Ravi Subramanian

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas…

— James Cameron

A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you…

— Jose Padilha

I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get…

— Paul Greengrass

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman