Top 136 Screenwriting Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they're mostly pretty crappy.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.
I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.
I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.
Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.
As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.
I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything for the theater. I'm not sure I've ever fully appreciated before how different a form theater is.
I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'
Screenwriting is about condensing.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
