Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I`m a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise ...
Michael Madsen
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that`s the end. Here`s another who`s never going to write well again.
Richard Russo
Screenplays I didn`t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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
I write screenplays that don`t get made and pilots that don`t get picked up, and I re-write other people`s movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
Bruce Vilanch
At the moment, I`m toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Rose Tremain
[on picking screenplays] I wouldn`t know a good script if it bit me in the face.
Tim Burton
