78 Quotes About Screenwriting

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

When is now.

Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

I read a few of those books on how to write a screenplay, but, just like I told you with the school thing, once again, most of those books are written by someone who’s never written a good script. You look at the writer’s credits and they’ve written one episode of The Golden Girls or something. People who write good scripts, write scripts. They don’t write books about writing scripts.

When writing a novel, the only real constraint is how far you want to go with your ideas. With movie scripts, you have time and budgetary constraints. For example, if your screenplay is set entirely at night, you've just doubled the cost of the movie. Novels can indulge all five senses, but Film is a visual medium that usurps the novelist's tool of narration through voice-over to add depth and perspective.

It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

In prose, when you wrote something, it's symphonic… There's something ethereal in that process that's euphoric.

The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.