Quotes of: Screenwriting Keyword

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

John Francis Daley

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

Elmore Leonard

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.

Melissa Rosenberg

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very ...

Michael Hirst

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, an...

John Logan

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

Obie Trice

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

Marshall Brickman

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

John Milius

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

John Francis Daley

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Bret Easton Ellis

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

William Goldman

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Sadie Jones

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

Tony Gilroy

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

James Frain

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

James Frey

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

Elizabeth Meriwether