Top Screenplay Quotes
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard Attenborough
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
Robert B. Parker
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron
All Screenplay Quotes
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard Attenborough 
77% of people like this quote
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci 
56% of people like this quote
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
Robert B. Parker 
56% of people like this quote
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo 
55% of people like this quote
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron 
54% of people like this quote
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
Kelly Jones 
53% of people like this quote
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
Charles Dance 
53% of people like this quote
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Richard Russo 
52% of people like this quote
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving 
52% of people like this quote
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown 
52% of people like this quote
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