Screenwriter Quotes

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman

Life, Enough, Creative

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.
Diablo Cody

Time, Pretty, Same

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
Jo Nesbo

Down, Play, Bit

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

Movies, Few, Books

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
Robbie Coltrane

Job, Director, Fantastic

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.
Melissa Rosenberg

Woman, Goal, Number

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.
Melissa Rosenberg

Life, Best, Winning

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
John Sayles

Young, Stories, Wrote

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy

Play, Poor, Films

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy

Successful, Sorry

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
Laura Hillenbrand

Writing, Him, Working

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco

Good, Words, Film

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
Damon Lindelof

May, Sound, Effective

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
Kerry Washington

Bad, Thought, Another

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
Cameron Crowe

Movies, Thought, Loved

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.
Julia Cameron

God, Morning, Character

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
Rob Bell

Artist, Common, Share

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
Beth Henley

Here, Poet, Sell

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.
Tom Perrotta

Life, School, Pretty

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Work, Challenge, Keep

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.
Aravind Adiga

Political, Two, Growing

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
Patricia Highsmith

Said, Progress, Trouble

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
Lorene Scafaria

Hard, Vision, Turn

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
Maria Semple

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Work, Writing, Used

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
David Benioff

Difficult, Choices, Adaptation

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
Nigel Kneale

Money, Big, Name

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.
Michael Hayden

Political, Special, Dark

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
David Benioff

Goal, Again, Frustrated

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
Vikram Chatwal

Actor, Guess, Model

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