78 Quotes About Screenwriting

Making a movie is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

It is no longer about letting imaginary things become reality, but rather about letting things, just as they are, become as meaningful as possible.

We shape the telling to fit the substance, rework the substance to support the design.

All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.

Love awakens the soul.

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.

Coffee and screenwriting go hand in hand.

There is magic in the old and magic in the new. The trick is to successfully combine the two.