Adapting Quote by Philippe Falardeau

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions…

— Ravi Subramanian

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and…

— Hugo Weaving

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a…

— Wong Kar-wai

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character…

— Jeremy Renner

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