#screenplay

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #myself #novels #really #screenplays

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

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#different kinds #fees #get #i #i write

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that. ↗

— James Spader

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The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#animated #animated films #animation #beginner #best

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#did #directing #director #had #harder

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#making #more #movies #nothing #screenplay

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#craft #different #fiction #otherwise #play

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. ↗

— George Lucas

#being #dialogue #king #me #screenplays