Comic book Quote by James Gunn

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

— John Irving

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

— Deepa Mehta

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 great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create…

— Jamie Linden

Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they…

— Ryan Reynolds

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

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for…

— Benicio Del Toro

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the…

— Wadah Khanfar

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we…

— Pete Docter

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that…

— Josh Radnor