Able Quote by George Lucas

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

— Augusten Burroughs

Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated musically.

— Manoj Kumar

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's…

— Charlize Theron

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I…

— Joel Edgerton

I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.'

— Jon Watts

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will…

— Sylvester Stallone

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple