Backgrounds Quote by Les Standiford

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television,…

— Rod Serling

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in…

— David Cage

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

— Lasse Hallstrom

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background…

— Juliet Asante

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from…

— Joel Grey

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If…

— Sandra Bullock

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