Atmosphere Quote by Ray Bradbury

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

— Edward Norton

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

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Peter Hedges

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

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

— Robert Altman

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

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