Before Quote by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged…

— Aaron Paul

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

— James Cameron

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

— Shane Black

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 don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

— Robert Ben Garant

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

— Tony Gilroy

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

— Mel Gibson

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

— Nicholas Jarecki

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

— Tom Stoppard

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you…

— Maisie Williams

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old…

— Brian Helgeland