High school Quote by Melissa Keil

Something that you learn in film school is write what you know. I used to take that really literally. Like, I'd be like, OK,…

— Nia DaCosta

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to…

— Allison Schroeder

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

— Neil Jordan

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not…

— Stephen Sommers

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

— Obie Trice

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that…

— Jonathan Franzen