Screenplays Quotes - Page 7

• Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Joy, Pay

  Interview with Lisa Minzey, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Bored, Effort

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright.

  Donald Margulies

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

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

  Kara Hayward

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

  Sam Lake

  Writing, Games, Example

  "Alan Wake writer Sam Lake on the creative process. Part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.

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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Skeletons, Essence

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Might, Ends

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.

  Richard Price

  Book, Judging, Different

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• I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

  Robert Altman

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Cutting, Technology

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.11, Del Rey

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• Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

  Shane Carruth

  Book, Writing, Stubborn

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• I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

  John Milius

  Bullshit, Conscious

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

  Graeme Simsion

  Writing, Novel, Early 20s

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• A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Cutting, Numbers

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen" by David Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fun, Writing, Twenties

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.

  Scot Armstrong

  Writing, College, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

  Ridley Scott

  Strong, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Simple, Men, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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