Concise Quote by Eric Roth

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

— Terrell Suggs

You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact.

— Lenny Henry

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became…

— John Orloff

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it…

— Paul Schrader

I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I need to…

— John August

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot…

— Tony Kushner

I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form…

— William Monahan

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less…

— Nick Antosca

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says,…

— Thomas Bidegain