Books Quote by Neil Jordan

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an…

— Alice Hoffman

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in…

— Justin Cronin

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

— Richard Linklater

I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a…

— Gary Sinise

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a…

— Clark Gregg

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period…

— Tom Berenger

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of…

— Alice Hoffman

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've…

— Neil Jordan

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni