#screenplay

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#did #directing #director #had #harder

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #because #demanding #get #i

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#brilliant #five #got #i #just

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#back #finished #going #i #i am

Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass—it's all showbiz! ↗

— Guy Maddin

#screenplay #music

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#after #although #ask #character #fact

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#direct #i #i always #i write #lines

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #direct #gets #guy #human

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

#am #charles #dance #else #i