Cinema Quote by Roger Ebert

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

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people…

— Elmore Leonard

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 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

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

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

— Edward Norton

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets…

— Quentin Tarantino

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'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

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