Can do Quote by Quentin Tarantino

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

— Taiye Selasi

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I…

— Liana Liberato

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can…

— Daniel Clowes

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the…

— James McAvoy

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size…

— Brian Helgeland

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first…

— Nia Vardalos

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of…

— Michael Winterbottom