Character Quote by Jose Padilha

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a…

— Wong Kar-wai

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

— Peter Webber

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script,…

— Morley

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have…

— Woody Allen

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

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

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for…

— Benicio Del Toro

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's…

— Sydney Pollack