Able Quote by Jamie Linden

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

— Grant Heslov

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

— Eric Roth

My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer…

— Callie Khouri

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you…

— Lorene Scafaria

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

— William Goldman

I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in…

— David Lowery

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

— Ridley Scott

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone in a…

— Eva Victor

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

— John Irving

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

— John Waters