Books Quote by John Francis Daley

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

— Taiye Selasi

I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.…

— Robert Evans

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do…

— Justin Zackham

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure…

— Henry Selick

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too…

— Nick Hornby

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what…

— John Patrick Shanley