Screenwriting Quotes
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Screenwriting Quotes & Sayings
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Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.
— Dawn Garcia
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
— Obie Trice
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
— Jonathan Tropper
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
— Paul Schrader
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
— Fran Lebowitz
Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?
— A.D. Posey
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
— Diablo Cody
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Screenwriting is made of brevity.
— A.D. Posey
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
— Jonathan Tropper
Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.
Be yourself! — Christine Willson
The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Love awakens the soul.
— A.D. Posey
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
— William Monahan
Do you want it good or Tuesday?
— Jimmy Sangster
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
— Victoria Aveyard
Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in film.
— Richard Toscan
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
— James L. Brooks
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
— Mike Birbiglia
The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?
— Billy Marshall Stoneking
Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
— Gabriel Campisi
Intuition is truth.
— A.D. Posey
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
— Chester Elijah Branch
With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.
— Paul T. Scheuring
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
— David Benioff
Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
— Ian McEwan
Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.
— Solange Nicole
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
— Simon Beaufoy
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
— Simon Beaufoy
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
— Nunnally Johnson
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
— Charlie Kaufman
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
— Hugh Laurie
Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
— A.D. Posey
Love is written by the soul.
— A.D. Posey
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.
— John Irving
Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.
— Gerard De Marigny
People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
— Chester Elijah Branch
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
— Andrew Dominik
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
— A.D. Posey
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.
— Paul T. Scheuring
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
— Louis Malle
Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.
— A.D. Posey
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
— Tobias Lindholm
Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
— A.D. Posey
It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Peace is when we look upon the world together.
— A.D. Posey
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.
— Dawn Garcia
Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
— Darlene Craviotto
There is magic in the old and magic in the new; the trick is to successfully combine the two.
— A.D. Posey
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
— Charlie Kaufman
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
— Brian Koppelman
