Cinema Quote by Peter O'Toole

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

— Derek Jarman

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

— Julie Taymor

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with…

— Pankaj Kapur

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd…

— Peter O'Toole

The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they…

— Sam Shepard

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

I've never taken a script to the stage or to principal photography and said, "This is perfect. This is as good as it can…

— Harold Ramis

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind…

— Charlie Kaufman

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film…

— Gurinder Chadha