First Quote by Ernest Cline

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

— Bruce Feirstein

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch…

— Lisa Lutz

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it…

— Terrell Suggs

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my…

— Anne Rice

I've never written anything before in my entire life, but I have read many comics, so I just wrote what I would want to…

— Iman Vellani

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one…

— Harold Ramis

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

— Jon Watts

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny…

— Val Guest

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

I was the first person from my family to enter films. So, everything connected with films was new to me, including fans and fan…

— Ajith Kumar

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

— Christopher McQuarrie