Actresses Quote by Emily Mortimer

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did…

— Bill Hader

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like…

— Hampton Fancher

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're…

— Erin Maya Darke

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

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

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

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas,…

— Fatih Ak?n

I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me…

— Shoshannah Stern

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

— Kate DiCamillo