Book Quote by Emma Donoghue

The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to…

— Shane Carruth

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was…

— Gene Hackman

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it."…

— Emma Donoghue

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies…

— Manuel Puig

I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I…

— Dustin Lance Black

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

— Damien Chazelle

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and…

— Uday Kiran

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do…

— Julie Plec

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the…

— Anton Corbijn

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the…

— Preston Sturges

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 went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

— Lauren Miller