#screen

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#because #comedy #directors #i #i do

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#come #feel #find #i #people

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly. ↗

— John Hughes

#i #kissing #quickly #screen #thin

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#artwork #best #big #big screen #books

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair. ↗

— John Langdon

#around #behind #chair #climb #could

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#i #issues #problems #screenwriting

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there. ↗

— Margaret Edson

#movie #screenplay #imagination

Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It’s tough because they’re slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #love #lube #slip #slippery

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? ↗

— Nora Ephron

#movies