78 Quotes About Screenwriting

There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.

As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.

With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.

It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.

Without the author there is nothing.

Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in film.

There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided that I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose, and that perhaps a reputation may come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses.