Quotes About Screenplay

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so much richness to it. And not that they won't do that for their next script, but there is something about their first experience and the time that it's been floating in their head.

I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.

It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring 'Blue Valentine' to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.

When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.

The screenplay, obliged to work in its own right, is both an argument with the source material and a commentary on it.

She imagined Ripley sitting at the typewriter with her as she wrote her novel. I imagined her sitting with me as I wrote my screenplay.

Most of what follows is true.' William Goldman, who won an Oscar for the screenplay,

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.