Screenplays Quotes - Page 6

• The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic novels but we certainly, once the screenplay was done, we talked about the idea that you could continue, you could tell back story, you could do things in sort of a graphic novel world just because we kind of like that world.

  Todd Farmer

  Thinking, Ideas, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie.

  A. R. Rahman

  Reading, Cutting, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for real creation: graphic creation, pictorial creation, or audiovisual creation. If we really want to use the art of animation with all its strength, we have to rethink the processes by which it's made because the medium is the message.

  Alex Abreu

  Art, Real, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.

  Craig Brewer

  Writing, Three, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

  William Monahan

  Achievement, Guy, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Play, Trying

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

  Abi Morgan

  Writing, Voice, Boards

  Source: collider.com

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• Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Paris, Style

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• I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Procrastination, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Ordinary, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to not know what you're doing. So I think the screenplay is a great tool to get everybody on the same page.

  Robert Schwentke

  Thinking, Essence, Tools

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

  Robert Schwentke

  Discussion, Documents

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

  Paul Greengrass

  Character, Giving, Trying

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.

  Paul Greengrass

  Editing, Trying, Shooting

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

  Owen Wilson

  Brother, College, Texas

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

  Julianna Baggott

  Plot, Weight, Bears

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Plot, Want

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Tombstone, Writing, Computer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gabriel Campisi

  Mistake, Years, Crafts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Mind, Synthesis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.

  Meghan Daum

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Talking, Directors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Distance, Moving, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character and it involved some creation around him. That's what I like about adapting that particular play because I added some maneuvering space as a scriptwriter to invent my own things.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hurt, Trying, Pages

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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