Care Quote by Robert Towne

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description…

— Andrew Sean Greer

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

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

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

— Grant Heslov

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to…

— Jonathan Raymond

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have…

— Vetrimaaran

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

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

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan