Economy Quote by Diablo Cody

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

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not…

— Charlie Kaufman

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have…

— Vetrimaaran

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

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

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

— Eric Roth

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly…

— Kyle Mooney

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of…

— Owen Pallett

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