Alone Quote by Leigh Whannell

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

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

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

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

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly…

— Kyle Mooney

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you…

— Jose Padilha

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

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard