#screenplay

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #deserves #familiar #features #had

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#david #director #great #hate #him

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#back #called #commercial #film #filmmaking

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#always #best #comedy #down #funny

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

— Richard Attenborough

#making #more #movies #nothing #screenplay

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #because #demanding #get #i

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

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

#atmosphere #begin #convey #ending #happens

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#because #changing #easier #edit #entire

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. ↗

— Beth Henley

#did #i #original #plays #rather