(On his first screenplay "Now You Know"): "I pretty much wrote it in my spare time. I never really said, "Okay, I`m going to write a movie now." I was just kinda screwing around."
Jeff Anderson
On American Beauty (1999): "I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it".
Kevin Spacey
[On screenplay-writing for actresses] The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips ...
Diablo Cody
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I`ve done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the scre...
William Baldwin
After the creation and the filming are over. As you well know, we don`t have a script when we`re shooting. But after the film, the screenplay gets published and you can read the whole thing
Imelda Staunton
I`d never read the book [Of Mice and Men] in school or anything. So when I read the screenplay I just cried my eyes out. I couldn`t believe - it was just a beautiful story. When I met with Gary Sinise, he just said, `You know, she`s always played - and sh...
Sherilyn Fenn
Hollywood filmmaking has become more and more about power and control. It`s really not about telling stories. That`s just a pretense. But ironically, the fundamental difference between making films in Europe versus America is in how the screenplay is deal...
Wim Wenders
I once wrote a horror screenplay for my friend Vincent to make when he was in high school that was close to Bergman`s The Seventh Seal". Very psychological horror stuff. Alot of the religious elements in the script ended up in Dogma.
Kevin Smith
You got to think of things at their worst, not at their best. And Out of Sight (1998) was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I`d read where I just went, `That`s it`. And even though it didn`t do really well box off...
George Clooney
The two biggest moments of my life were walking on-stage (as an actor) in Tony Kushner`s Angels in America on opening night on Broadway. The second was being nominated for a screenplay Oscar along with him. [on Oscar nomination for Capote (2005) on 31 Jan...
Dan Futterman
(About Pirates of the Caribbean) It was mentioned that they were considering a movie based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and I said I was in. There was no screenplay, no director, nothing. For some unknown reason, I just said I was in.
Johnny Depp
[On being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Away From Her"] I`m in total disbelief. I`m thrilled but kind of in shock too. It`s been such a strange year and I`m bowled over by the life of the film. It`s more than I could have...
Sarah Polley
When I first agreed to do it the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window. - On War and Peace (1956)
Henry Fonda
You convince yourself you can fix the screenplay, because there`s a lot of money involved. But you can never make it work. If the script has a hole in it, it will always have that hole.
Nick Nolte
What`s most gratifying to me is Sarah Polley getting a nomination for screenplay adaptation. I was afraid she wouldn`t be recognized. I wondered if they were going to get this great piece of work. I`m very glad I did it because it`s a terribly important i...
Julie Christie
[on working with director Otto Preminger on Such Good Friends (1971)] I was warned about him -- but could anybody really be that bad? Yeah, they could. Elaine May wrote a great screenplay. He took a piece of beauty and screwed it up. It was an incredible ...
Dyan Cannon
[From an interview about his reaction to reading the original The Terminator (1984) screenplay] I have read a lot of action adventure scripts, and this definitely was one of the best. I knew that I wanted to play the part of the Terminator as soon as I st...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
[On The Conqueror (1956)] The way the screenplay reads, this is a cowboy picture, and that`s how I am going to play Genghis Khan. I see him as a gunfighter.
John Wayne
You`re torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that`s really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don`t understand the process?
Robert Towne
The original version of the screenplay was much darker, and portrayed the central character as more of an Everyman. It was also set in Manhattan.
Peter Weir
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
Harold Ramis
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
Kelly Jones
I`m working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
Irvine Welsh
(On his first screenplay "Now You Know"): "I pretty much wrote it in my spare time. I never really said, "Okay, I`m going to write a movie now." I was just kinda screwing around."
Jeff Anderson
