Screenwriter Quotes

Of all working screenwriters, I'm a foul shooter, ... I would take any screenwriter on in foul shots. - Charles Koppelman

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter. - Tony Gilroy

My film refuses to be a pamphlet. My screenwriter, Tony Kushner, and I were hoping to make it a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, combined in such a way that it will help you get in touch with what you feel are the questions the film poses. The most important thing about peace in the Middle East is that people surrender their absolute certainty about what's going on. - Steven Spielberg

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. - Alice Hoffman

It was a good movie; it has a good story and good screenwriter. It brings contemporary issues into a contemporary Western structure. - Robert Thompson

I'm forever saying to directors and screenwriters I've worked with, 'We don't need this part; let me act it.' - Laura Linney

If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up. Anyway, life never turns out the way you imagine, dream or plan it to. Or hadn't you heard? - Dirk Benedict

I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He developed a screenplay out of the story. It's incredible; I hope that it can be made into a movie soon. Our agency is shopping it around Hollywood. I think it's going to be an incredibly powerful film. It starts with one part, and then we have plans for a sequel as well. - Geoff Tate

He went to every fund-raising meeting vouching for a first-time feature director and first-time screenwriter. It was Phil who said, 'I believe in them; you need to trust me. - Dan Futterman