After Quote by Jane Goldman

Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great…

— William Monahan

A lot of directors, they don't go into the editing room during the shoot. When they come back, they've forgotten what they've shot. That's…

— Til Schweiger

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing…

— Charlie Kaufman

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

— Ed Harris

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

— Diablo Cody

Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How beautiful this…

— David Lynch

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things…

— Lawrence Blume

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

— Amit Trivedi

Considering that we do two to three films a year, it becomes very hard to be navigated and come back to a scene that…

— Zayed Khan

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a…

— Tom Stoppard

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

— Cary Elwes