Accepted Quote by Val Guest

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

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

— Gabriel Campisi

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

— John Sayles

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

— Krysten Ritter

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

— Nicholas Jarecki

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one…

— Harold Ramis

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta

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

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and…

— Uday Kiran

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so…

— Sarah Polley