Screenplays Quotes

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

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

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

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.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

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

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.