Back Quote by Nick Cave

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can…

— Daniel Clowes

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

— Peter O'Toole

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

— George Lucas

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

— Taiye Selasi

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying…

— Elmore Leonard

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to…

— Renny Harlin

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

— Diablo Cody

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did…

— Bill Hader

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan