Cinema Quote by Lorene Scafaria

As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is…

— James Watkins

My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer…

— Callie Khouri

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're…

— Tony Gilroy

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says,…

— Thomas Bidegain

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description…

— Andrew Sean Greer

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it…

— Victor Levin

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

— Robbie Coltrane

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream…

— Marion Cotillard

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

— Akira Kurosawa