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The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.


Douglas Wood


#animated #animated films #animation #beginner #best

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.


Renny Harlin


#back #called #commercial #film #filmmaking

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.


Rachel Griffiths


#developing #i #moment #producer #screenplays

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.


Satyajit Ray


#based #been #eighteen #films #find

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.


Tom Skerritt


#director #most #primarily #screenplays #vision

[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting. Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow.


Emma Thompson


#marketing #movies #novelization #screenplays #unintentional-humor

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.


Emma Thompson


#books #jane-austen #language #movies #screenplays

But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that had gone numb on the armrest separating our seats. He did this because in the book Julian Wells lived but in the movie's new scenario he had to die. He had to be punished for all of his sins. That's what the movie demanded. (Later, as a screenwriter, I learned it's what all movies demanded.) When this scene occurred, in the last ten minutes, Julian looked at me in the darkness, stunned. "I died," he whispered. "They killed me off." I waited a bit before sighing, "But you're still here." Julian turned back to the screen and soon the movie ended, the credits rolling over the palm trees as I (improbably) take Blair back to my college while Roy Orbison wails a song about how life fades away.


Bret Easton Ellis


#screenplays #writing #movies

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.


Neil LaBute


#got #i #into #need #plays

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