Audience Quote by William Monahan

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside…

— Ruth Jones

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

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

— Edward Norton

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

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

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

— Andy Garcia