Achieve Quote by Miranda Richardson

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite,…

— Jeremy Davies

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people…

— Lawrence Bender

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows…

— Lena Dunham

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people…

— Mani Ratnam

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I…

— Adrian Lyne

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not…

— Bruce Feirstein

What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production…

— Peter Vack

I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way…

— Frank Peretti

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the…

— Leigh Whannell