Cinema Quote by Melissa Rosenberg

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size…

— Brian Helgeland

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I…

— Liana Liberato

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

— Rajkumar Hirani

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into…

— Tom Perrotta

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and…

— Harland Williams

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers…

— Marc Forster

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the…

— Bruce Glover

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

— Kay Kay Menon

Make your film for the least amount you can.

— Debra Granik

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

— T.I

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

— Alfred Hitchcock