About Quote by Nick Hornby

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

— John Milius

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

— Ian Mcewan

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see…

— Alex Garland

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

— Charlie Kaufman

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't…

— Jonathan Raymond

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal…

— David Nicholls

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

— Charlie Kaufman

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

— James L. Brooks