Cinema Quote by Stephen Chbosky

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who…

— Jim Shepard

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for…

— Stephen Gaghan

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the…

— John Patrick Shanley

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also…

— Idina Menzel

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies…

— Manuel Puig

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I was directing as a kid in movies, and that was always my strongest interest. When I was under contract at Universal, I conned…

— Tim Matheson

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

— Buck Henry

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As…

— Clark Gregg

My first job after drama school was with Stanley Kubrick. It was only a few lines in 'A Clockwork Orange', but I was working…

— Carol Drinkwater