About Quote by Maggie Carey

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You…

— Joel Surnow

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for…

— Benicio Del Toro

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

— Mary Steenburgen

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm…

— Alex Garland

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going…

— Ricky Schroder

Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How beautiful this…

— David Lynch

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

— Peter Webber

A script is like a theory of a movie.

— John C. Reilly

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a novel would…

— Harry Enfield