Movie Quote by Matthew Specktor

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his…

— Rod Serling

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

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

— Conrad Aiken

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

— Grant Heslov

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

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

— Shawn Wayans