Climbing Quote by Syd Field

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay,…

— Philippe Claudel

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

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

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

— Edward Norton

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

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

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell