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1. "So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
Author: Adrian Lyne
2. "I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star."
Author: Andrew Dominik
3. "I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist."
Author: Beatrice Dalle
4. "New Rule: Gun-control people have to stop pressuring Starbucks to ban guns. I want my gun nuts overcaffeinated, twitchy, and accident-prone. That way, the problem will take care of itself. Plus, if just one gun nut kills just one pseudo-intellectual writing a screenplay-slash-graphic-novel on his iPad, natural selection is doing its job."
Author: Bill Maher
5. "Character isn't something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that is built by action and error, out of anxiety and a longing that compels great efforts in the face of eternal hopelessness. A character in a story fights to get what s/he wants, just as the dramatic writer must fight to penetrate his or her own stubborn habits, prejudices and expectations, to get to the heart of the story. Drama builds character - that's why it exists, both inside and outside the screenplay."
Author: Billy Marshall Stoneking
6. "I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well."
Author: Blake Jenner
7. "If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically."
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
8. "I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."
Author: Bruce Vilanch
9. "My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel."
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10. "I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks."
Author: Christy Hall
11. "When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those."
Author: Clark Gregg
12. "I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious."
Author: Diablo Cody
13. "I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch."
Author: Diablo Cody
14. "The name fuse followed me from the book to the screenplay, and now I have to live with the name, which I chose in 30 seconds with no thought about how it might sound or what it might imply. It was just a funny thing."
Author: Diablo Cody
15. "I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me."
Author: Dianna Agron
16. "Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing"
Author: Douglas Adams
17. "The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
Author: Douglas Wood
18. "But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author."
Author: Edward Burns
19. "Most of the ideas I've gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A number have occurred to me while I was driving 127. I rarely get ideas when seated in front of my typewriter, which I find ironic because I have always suspected that typing somehow plays a key role in writing."
Author: Gary Reilly
20. "I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of "unsold." I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the "uncompleted" category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as "sold" or "unsold." But that's just my own filing system."
Author: Gary Reilly
21. "So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all."
Author: Guillermo Del Toro
22. "I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."
Author: Irvine Welsh
23. "Brick and Blanket could be the names of two characters in a screenplay full of witty dialogue like:?Brick: Hello!?Blanket: Hi!?Brick: How are you??Blanket: Good. You??Brick: Good."
Author: Jarod Kintz
24. "The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice."
Author: Joey Lauren Adams
25. "Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song."
Author: Kelly Jones
26. "I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking."
Author: Kerry Washington
27. "I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile."
Author: Melissa Rosenberg
28. "I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script."
Author: Michael Arndt
29. "And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."
Author: Neil LaBute
30. "I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit."
Author: Nia Vardalos
31. "A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."
Author: Nicholas Meyer
32. "Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is."
Author: Patricia Marx
33. "A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people."
Author: Paula Patton
34. "If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels."
Author: Quentin Tarantino
35. "A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
Author: Renny Harlin
36. "I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table."
Author: Robby Benson
37. "I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing."
Author: Rupert Sanders
38. "I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly."
Author: Salman Khan
39. "The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
Author: Sara Sheridan
40. "I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."
Author: Satyajit Ray
41. "I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature."
Author: Seth Grahame Smith
42. "Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next."
Author: Shailene Woodley
43. "'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me."
Author: Stephen Chbosky
44. "When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen."
Author: Taiye Selasi
45. "I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home."
Author: Tate Taylor
46. "David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet."
Author: Tom Hardy
47. "I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships."
Author: William Baldwin
48. "Screenplays are structure, and that's all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn't anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don't want to begin with "Once upon a time," because the audience gets antsy."
Author: William Goldman
49. "End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it.Penélope and Javier anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them.Goodbye drink with Rebecca. Sentimental moment.Everyone in cast and crew chipped in and bought me a ballpoint pen."
Author: Woody Allen
50. "Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
Author: Yahoo Serious
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