Screenplays Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

  Richard Price

  Drug, Looks, Firsts

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• Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

  Bruce Joel Rubin

  Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

  Joe Wright

  Blue, Careers, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.

  Ben Affleck

  Names, Want, Might

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Process, Visceral

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

  Deepa Mehta

  Thinking, Feet, Reason

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

  Deepa Mehta

  Writing, Directors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.

  Stacy Peralta

  Running, Writing, Athlete

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

  Sam Mendes

  High Standards, Making Changes, Instinct

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

  Philippe Claudel

  Writing, Goal, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment.

  Andrew Neel

  Ephemeral, Documentaries, Excitement

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

  Edward Norton

  Made, Written

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• Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

  James Scott Bell

  Writing, Thumbs, Los Angeles

  James Scott Bell (2004). “Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure”, p.8, Writer's Digest Books

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• I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve the look that I wanted for this film. I wanted it to be dirty, and 16mm provides all of that with the look and the grain. That's what I worked for, and that's what I wanted, and that's how I'd seen the movie in my mind.

  Deon Taylor

  Dirty, Guy, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.

  Curtis Hanson

  Needs, Actors, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is being imposed on them. I want the actors to feel that this is their own role, and that they can go back to point zero and develop this character.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Zero, Writing, Character

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film 'The Past'". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting with Brad [Pitt], just around the time that he was making World War Z. I basically told him the story and said, "This is what I want to do," and he really responded, so that helped me put the thing together and write it.

  Steven Knight

  War, Writing, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.

  Joss Whedon

  Running, Couple, Writing

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• I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Thinking, Might

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Pride, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 30, 2012.

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