Books Quote by Donald Miller

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them…

— Sarah Polley

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The…

— Catherine Deneuve

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job…

— Karan Wahi

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

— Kate DiCamillo

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 had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into…

— Satyajit Ray

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

— John Waters

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov