Quotes About Screenplay

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

If you want me to perform in Silver Lake - where it looks like 'Vice' magazine threw up everywhere, where all the men are wearing V-necks to their belly buttons, salmon pants, and carrying a screenplay - I'll do it, because they might appreciate a Banksy joke I can't do anywhere else.

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

The way Nolan looks at things is just amazing. It can be easily seen in all his films. I was just watching his videos on how he came up with the screenplay of 'Memento,' and it's just extraordinary. It just opens up your mind.

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

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.

Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

I sold him the house, if you want to know." "Maybe I'll buy it back, when I sell my screenplay.

For 'So Cold the River ' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter ' and who also wrote '8 Mile ' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

I'm trying to work on a children's book and a screenplay about zombies that take over a drug rehab. These writing projects usually go nowhere, but it feels like I always have to be working on something. Writing gives me a purpose. I think in some ways it has helped keep me alive. Without it I'm not sure I would ever have enough hope to get sober—to make that decision to live.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.