Development Quote by Nina Jacobson

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

Taylor Sheridan I think wrote a very good script. It reeked of authenticity. He seemed like a guy who knew what he was talking…

— Jeff Bridges

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

I remember Emilio [Estevez] and I were at John's house during the rehearsal process. And John [Huges] had mentioned he wrote the first draft…

— Judd Nelson

You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact.

— Lenny Henry

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do,…

— Ethan Suplee

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing…

— Graham Linehan

“Today, names of screenwriters like Zoe Akins, Jeanie Macpherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Lenore Coffee, Anita Loos, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth, Jane Murfin, Adela Rogers…

— Cari Beauchamp

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it…

— Stephen Hopkins

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.

— Alastair Reynolds

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it."…

— Emma Donoghue