Screenwriter Quotes – City of Quotes

When I was really young I didn’t know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

John Sayles

Normally with film, it’s normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Jane Goldman

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

Dylan Penn

If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, ‘This is what my day is like,’ it would have been really helpful.

Robert Ben Garant

The dull externals of the screenwriter’s working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.

Whit Stillman

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be ‘American Beauty’ and very important work.

Phoebe Robinson

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

W. Bruce Cameron

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

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When I was really young I didn’t know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

Normally with film, it’s normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, ‘This is what my day is like,’ it would have been really helpful.

The dull externals of the screenwriter’s working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be ‘American Beauty’ and very important work.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

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.