Screenplay Quotes
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I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.
— Serena Williams
I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.
— Michael Cristofer
My theory is that everything in your screenplay is there to explore the theme
— William C. Martell
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
— Quentin Tarantino
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
— Ray Bradbury
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
— Richard Attenborough
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
— Evangeline Lilly
I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.
— Dianna Agron
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
— Andrew Vachss
Winning or losing achieves the same resultchange. — Shannon L. Alder
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
— Miguel Nicolelis
Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.
— Abi Morgan
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
— Yahoo Serious
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
— Preston Sturges
A cup of tea would restore my normality.[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay] — Douglas Adams
A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.
— Catherine Hardwicke
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
— Beatrice Dalle
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.
— Diablo Cody
It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
— Christopher Darden
I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.
— Christy Hall
If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.
— Sally Robinson
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
— Gabriel Campisi
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.
— James Scott Bell
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
— Elmore Leonard
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
— Dirk Benedict
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language ... the screenplay with dialogue, plot ...
— Julianna Baggott
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
— Hilary Mantel
Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.
— Todd Barry
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
— Alan Moore
Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
— Mickey Rourke
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.
— Diablo Cody
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.
— Guillermo Del Toro
With the right tools, you can write anything ...
— Jeff Lyons
They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.
— Augusten Burroughs
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
— Kate DiCamillo
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?
— Nora Ephron
I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
— Barry Eisler
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
— Philippe Falardeau
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
— John Patrick Shanley
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
— Nicholas Meyer
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair.(ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!) — Oliver Stone
Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.
— Gerard De Marigny
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
— Victoria Justice
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
— Gurinder Chadha
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
— Rita Mae Brown
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.
— William Monahan
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
— Bill Murray
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I'm on a missionWinning Novel / Screenplay written in Hollywood
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The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.
— Joey Lauren Adams
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories.
— Richard Finney
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
— Richard Russo
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
— Francis Ford Coppola
A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.
— Sissy Spacek
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
— Quentin Tarantino
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
— Nathan Hale
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
— Salman Rushdie
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.
— Robert Altman
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
— Grant Heslov
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
— Graeme Simsion
