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Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.
— Dawn Garcia
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
— William Bernhardt
Okay, you got me. The screenwriter is a vampire. Now go to your own desk and call Mimi so she can call me and I can get my day started
— Tere Michaels
I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.
— Graeme Simsion
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
— Robbie Coltrane
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
— Groucho Marx
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
— Akira Kurosawa
Lucas George (Walton) (b.1944), American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the science-fiction film Star Wars (1977),
— Amazon Dictionary Account
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
— Steven Bochco
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
— Peter Landesman
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
— James Frain
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
— Tony Gilroy
Actually having sex with a screenwriter typically led to a blockbuster.
— Marshall Thornton
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.
— John Patrick Shanley
As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
— Philippa Boyens
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
— Tony Gilroy
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
— Lorene Scafaria
A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.
— Frank Miller
Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.
— Charles D'Ambrosio
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
— Marshall Brickman
The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.
— Leigh Brackett
With the right tools, you can write anything ...
— Jeff Lyons
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
— John Sayles
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged.
— Andrea L'Artiste
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
— Stephan Pastis
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
— Cameron Crowe
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
— Jane Goldman
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
— Emma Donoghue
Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.
— A.D. Posey
Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
— A.D. Posey
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
— William Monahan
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
— William Goldman
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
— Jonathan Nolan
If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
— Dawn Garcia
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.
— John Francis Daley
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
— Tom Schulman
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
— David Benioff
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
— Albert Brooks
My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.
— Matthew Specktor
Everything you have heard about the shower scene is true.
— Paul Verhoeven