#screenplay

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#characters #decide #explore #go #goal

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#everyone #ground #here #inherent #interest

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now. ↗

— Al Yankovic

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Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex? Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world. Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men. ↗

— Jane Austen

#persuasion #screenplay #business

……, 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

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

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. ↗

— Edward Burns

#been #business #i #longer #lot

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