Crime Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see…

— Alex Garland

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

— Ian Mcewan

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess…

— Matt Haig

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

— James L. Brooks

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal…

— David Nicholls

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

— William Monahan

I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't…

— Jonathan Raymond

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how…

— Sriram Raghavan

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader