Communication Quote by Frank Oz

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

— Nicholas Jarecki

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these…

— Tom Stoppard

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

— Elden Henson

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

— Salma Hayek

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when…

— John Sayles