Cinema Quote by Tom Stoppard

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

— Ali Wong

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

— Richard Attenborough

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

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

— Edward Norton

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

— John Waters

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write…

— Johnny Lever