Blueprints Quote by Quentin Tarantino

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have…

— Woody Allen

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

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my…

— Quentin Tarantino

I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.…

— Robert Evans

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's…

— John Francis Daley

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider…

— Nick Cave

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

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the…

— Carrie Brownstein

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard