Actors Quote by Tony Gilroy

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well…

— Scott Eastwood

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot…

— Andrew Davies

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good…

— Kajol

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

— Ken Loach

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

— Frederick Lenz

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have…

— Vetrimaaran

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

— Helen Mirren

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very…

— Paul Greengrass