Close Quote by Jay Chandrasekhar

If you are thrilled about a screenplay, execution never becomes a problem, so that's the way I have achieved 75 films.

— Priyadarshan

I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's…

— John August

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

From the 100 films I have done, I can easily write off about 60.

— Deepti Naval

You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact.

— Lenny Henry

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas…

— James Cameron

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

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

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my…

— Steven Zaillian

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying…

— Elmore Leonard

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of…

— Alice Hoffman