A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.
Renny Harlin

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
George Lucas

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.
Neil LaBute

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Rose Tremain

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
Beth Henley

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.
Michael Nesmith

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
Bruce Vilanch

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
Rachel Griffiths

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.
Alice Hoffman

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
Christopher Meloni

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
Bruce Vilanch

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
Thomas Harrison

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
Tom Skerritt

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
Kazuo Ishiguro

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.
Douglas Wood

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
Patrick Marber

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Richard Russo