I think Quote by Ryan Fleck

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

— Edward Norton

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai

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

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written,…

— Viggo Mortensen

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

— Mary Steenburgen

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

— John Waters

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

— Paula Wagner

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote…

— Sean Penn

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision…

— J. J. Abrams