Movie Quote by William Monahan

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

— Edward Norton

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

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of…

— Diablo Cody

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

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

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top…

— William Monahan

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— John Sayles