Directors Quote by Tom Stoppard

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs…

— Tom Stoppard

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with…

— Peter Morgan

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

— Charlie Brooker

Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens…

— Tom Stoppard

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for…

— John Patrick Shanley

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for…

— John Patrick Shanley

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes…

— Udo Kier

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have…

— William H. Macy

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory