Top Screenplay Quotes
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard Attenborough
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo
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 B. Parker
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving
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Charles Dance All Screenplay Quotes
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Richard Attenborough 
77% of people like this quote
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci
57% of people like this quote
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo
56% of people like this quote
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 B. Parker
56% of people like this quote
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving
54% of people like this quote
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown
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If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
Charles Dance
53% of people like this quote
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