(13 quotes found)
“I personally don't think anybody should be allowed to write a screenplay UNTIL they are over 40. It used to be don't trust anyone over 30; now it is don't hire anyone over 30. I wish I were joking.”
Dirk Benedict
“You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.”
Rita Mae Brown
“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 Parker
“I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.”
Richard Price
“If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.”
Quentin Tarantino
“In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,'”
Joe Roth
“I'm kind of in the dark. All I know is that the screenplay is finished.”
Eoin Colfer
“A screenplay is like a cookbook, ... You need the chef and staff to turn it into something the consumer can get his arms around.”
Jon Ward
“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
“A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.”
Nicholas Meyer
