Any Quote by John Ridley

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to…

— Meg Cabot

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

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

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 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

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will…

— Sylvester Stallone

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

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of…

— Diablo Cody

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

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody