Jason Reitman

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

Canadian Director

Kazuo Ishiguro

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.

Japanese Author

James Ivory

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

American Director

Jay Chandrasekhar

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.

American Actor

Frank Peretti

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.

American Author

Ernest Cline

Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

American Novelist

Yahoo Serious

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Australian Director

Janet Fitch

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

Richard Attenborough

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

English Actor

Beatrice Dalle

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

French Actress

A screenplay includes descriptions of settings and characters' actions, not just dialogue.

Visual Details

Screenplays follow a specific formatting style to be taken seriously in the film industry.

Industry Format

Think of a screenplay as a blueprint for the film; it guides the production but isn't the final product.

Blueprint

 who had written an English-language screenplay to upload their script, have it evaluated, and make it available to thousands of film-industry professionals. And I'm pleased to say, in the five years since its launch, we've largely proved that thesis. Hundreds of writers from across the world have found representation, have had their work optioned or sold.

How I accidentally...

 fantastic book no a-pink's wonderful screenplay for episode 1 and the idea of taking this to National Geographic Nat Geo channel was instantly interested and really within a day or two we said this could launch a series once now geo decided they wanted to make the show of

The Making of 'Genius' PIPE...

 other than to write the screenplay and I went to Florence to learn about the past but what I've come to discover is that this is the master work of a great thinker and the story of the cupola and Filippo Brunelleschi is a story about

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 There's a lot of funny to be found by simply noticing the ordinary, everyday things you don't ordinarily notice everyday. So if you'd like to add a little humor to that story, or speech, or screenplay you're writing,