Directors Quote by Julian Fellowes

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

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and…

— Evan Daugherty

Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.

— Zoya Akhtar

I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.

— R. Madhavan

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more…

— Kathleen Robertson

I think on our first two movies we weren't really writing for anybody else above us and that's not to say that movies aren't…

— Ryan Fleck

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

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and…

— Michael Hirst

As a director, I really have to rely on my first impression because I utilize that to best tell the story - that's all…

— David Nutter