Quotes About Screenplays

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions to keep. I like all the characters I have created. I cannot imagine chopping them off.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.

In all my screenplays, I have been exploring various aspects of femininity.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really happy writing screenplays, and there's a lot of people who just do that - they're screenwriters.

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the writing, and it feels natural, and feels funny or sad or honest or whatever it may be. You connect. And I felt when it feels like writing, when it feels stale, or when it feels artificial or forced, or too theatrical or whatever.