Able Quote by Steven Knight

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 was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how…

— Nick Castle

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

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the…

— Tom Perrotta

I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

— Steven Knight

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts…

— Quentin Tarantino

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

— Peter Hedges

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch…

— Lisa Lutz

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau