Art Quote by Paul Schrader

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most…

— Nicholas Meyer

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly…

— Kyle Mooney

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is…

— D. J. MacHale

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell