Direct Quote by John Patrick Shanley

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote…

— Sean Penn

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

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

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

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

— Ari Aster

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is…

— D. J. MacHale

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping…

— David Ayer