Air Quote by James Cameron

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've…

— Craig Brewer