Commissioned Quote by William Peter Blatty

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

— Bruce Feirstein

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with…

— Stephen Chbosky

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few…

— Caroline Leavitt

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned…

— Michael Douglas

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies…

— Manuel Puig

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story…

— Frida Farrell

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

— Curtis Hanson

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I directed my first movie, not one piece of press!

— Luke Goss

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

— Sam Levinson

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny…

— Val Guest