Casts Quote by Jason Reitman

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

— Peter Morgan

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't…

— Charlie Kaufman

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly…

— Kyle Mooney

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description…

— Andrew Sean Greer

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury