Edits Quote by Wanda Sykes

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

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

— Shawn Wayans

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

A script writer usually manipulates his characters in accordance to the script.

— Vetrimaaran

It's unusual when you get scripts not wanting to change things - I'm one of those actors who writers must hate as I'm always…

— Denis Lawson

A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that scriptwriting is…

— Daniel Kaluuya

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend…

— Tom Stoppard

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black

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

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide