Quotes About Creativity

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.

Capra always wanted a screenwriter with him, even on the soundstage. The writer had to be there at his side.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

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

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

Screenwriting is about condensing.

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

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

I always write the script by myself.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.