August Quote by Denzel Washington

I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never…

— Denzel Washington

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked…

— Viola Davis

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work…

— Denzel Washington

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

— Peter Hedges

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the…

— Preston Sturges

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning…

— Brendan I. Koerner

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others…

— Rupert Sanders

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

— Beatrice Dalle

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one…

— Harold Ramis

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

— Serena Williams