Quotes about screenwriting

Novelist by day screenwriter by night.

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

Love is written by the soul.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

Peace is when we look upon the world together.

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

Intuition is truth.

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.

Her words dance on the page.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

I think, because…well, I like the idea of coming up with a story that never existed before, but I don’t really want to be in charge. I don’t want to be famous. I guess I like the idea of sitting in the dark and knowing that I created the thing on screen, that it’s my story, but, like, no-one else has to know it was me. Does that make sense?

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphues. The poem itself would be a subtle series of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his contempt and boredom with that famously foolish boo

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

We encounter truth within.

When is now.

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.

Love awakens the soul.

Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.

Without the author there is nothing.

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won't let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don't take a

As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as a character outside the script to whom the story is addressed. A good part of the drama necessary for uncovering the story resides in the conflict between the storyteller and his/her audience. Audience plays the part of antagonist to the writer’s role as protagonist. The writer drives the action, whi

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided that I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose, and that perhaps a reputation may come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

[G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand our lives, their stories reflect our core values as human beings.

Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!

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.

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.

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.