Quotes of: Screenwriting Keyword

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Cameron Crowe

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Zoe Kazan

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Paul Thomas Anderson

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Robbie Coltrane

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

Maria Semple

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Steven Bochco

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

Tobias Lindholm

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

Graeme Simsion

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Hugh Laurie

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

Jonathan Tropper

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Jay Duplass

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

Anurag Kashyap

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

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

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

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Michael Arndt

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

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

David Benioff

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

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

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

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

Stephan Pastis

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

Valeria Golino