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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

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production. — Diablo Cody

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. — Alice Hoffman

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter. — Vikram Chatwal

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

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. — Eric Thomas

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. — Maria Semple

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

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons. — James Frey

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

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist. — Sadie Jones

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

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director. — Dylan Penn

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

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru! — 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

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible. — Eric Roth

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

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one. — Ben Richards

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