Desks Quote by William Monahan

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written,…

— Viggo Mortensen

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

— Evan Daugherty

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

— Leon De Winter

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

— Evan Daugherty

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

— Edward Norton

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon