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Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which…

— Jon Lovett

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first…

— Peter Gould

The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting…

— Steven Knight

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script…

— Curtis Hanson

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period…

— Tom Berenger

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials.…

— Nat Hentoff

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others…

— Rupert Sanders

When I read a script I respond to it like an audience member. At the end of the film, if I'm there in the…

— Jisshu Sengupta

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 was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie.

— Davis Guggenheim

I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I…

— Taika Waititi