Any Quote by John Patrick Shanley

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for…

— John Patrick Shanley

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for…

— John Patrick Shanley

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend…

— Tom Stoppard

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have…

— William H. Macy

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

— John Hughes

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies…

— John Frankenheimer

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with…

— Peter Morgan

I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month…

— Karen Allen

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones