Quotes About Screenplay

No actor can rise above the script of the film.

Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

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.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

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

Screenwriting is about condensing.

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

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

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

There aren't enough good scripts.