Dough Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to…

— Jonathan Nolan

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

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're…

— Thomas Lennon

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid…

— John Waters

I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out…

— Gail Collins

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh,…

— Kristen Stewart

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

— Shawn Levy

Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.

— Zoya Akhtar

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me…

— Michael Chabon

Along with loving the script, the reason I did 'Aeon Flux' was because I needed the job, and I couldn't find $5 million to…

— Karyn Kusama

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of…

— Bryan Ferry