27 Quotes About Screenplays
- Author Jeff Lyons
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Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!
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- Author Jeff Lyons
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With the right tools, you can write anything ...
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- Author Emma Thompson
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[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting.Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
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- Author William Goldman
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Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn’t anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don’t want to begin with “Once upon a time,” because the audience gets antsy.
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- Author Gerard de Marigny
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Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.
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- Author Richard Attenborough
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There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
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- Author Augusten Burroughs
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I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.
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- Author Diablo Cody
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I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.
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