Believe Quote by Rakshit Shetty

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people…

— Mani Ratnam

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

— Neil Jordan

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were…

— Aaron Sorkin

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

— Abi Morgan

I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own thing, tell…

— Maryann Brandon

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with,…

— Stephen Daldry

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

— Leigh Bardugo

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell