Disappear Quote by Simon Kinberg

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My…

— Abi Morgan

Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.

— Katie Dippold

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

— Thomas Lennon

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old…

— Brian Helgeland

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I…

— Rian Johnson

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me…

— Charlie Kaufman

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I…

— Margaret Haddix

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

— John Burnside