#screen

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#big #five #four #get #got

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. ↗

— Richard Russo

#much #novel #over #pains #screenplay

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#best #choosing #directors #every #i

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#big brother #bigger #brother #children #gearing

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#booing #each #ended #festival #film

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#completely #hell #historians #imagination #make

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#film #getting #important #important thing #most