Back Quote by Sidney Poitier

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are…

— Robert Towne

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

In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to…

— Meg Cabot

“I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script.”

— Jonathan Tropper

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

— Augusten Burroughs

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

— Yahoo Serious

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

— Carol Rifka Brunt

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind…

— Charlie Kaufman

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real,…

— Antoine Fuqua

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

— Paul Walter Hauser

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

— Stephen Fry