Assignments Quote by Donald Margulies

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a…

— Amy Holden Jones

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the…

— John Patrick Shanley

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a…

— David Ives

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if…

— Haile Gerima

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you…

— Dan Gilroy

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over…

— Leigh Whannell

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have…

— Woody Allen

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write,…

— David Niven