Books Quote by Emma Donoghue

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.

— Antara Mali

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film,…

— Chazz Palminteri

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a…

— Jess Walter

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you…

— William Mapother

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your…

— Jon Spaihts

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting…

— Ashwin Sanghi

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more…

— Leigh Whannell

In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that…

— Frank Whaley

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for…

— Robert B. Parker

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television…

— Ed Brubaker