Fall Quote by Peter Straughan

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

— Eric Roth

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

— Peter Hedges

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

— Edward Norton

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to…

— Devin Ratray

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

— Andy Garcia

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

— R. Madhavan

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as…

— Jo Nesbo