Quotes of: Screenwriting Keyword

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

John Sayles

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Diablo Cody

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Jane Goldman

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

John Irving

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 don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

Tracy Letts

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

Vikram Chatwal

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.

Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk!

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

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

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Nick Cave

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Charlie Kaufman

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Beth Henley

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

John C. Reilly

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

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

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

Raymond Chandler

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.

Justin Zackham

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

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Meg Cabot

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

Simon Beaufoy

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

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

David Nicholls