Directors Quote by Kelly Marcel

Every script always goes through rewrites so that everyone loves it.

— Michael Pena

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the…

— William Monahan

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these…

— Tom Stoppard

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite…

— Salma Hayek

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

— Tom Stoppard

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

— William H. Macy

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state,…

— Steven Knight

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

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting,…

— Neil Simon

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones…

— Cameron Diaz