Paul Greengrass

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.

English Director

Evan Daugherty

I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.

American Writer

Wong Kar-wai

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a film. You have to take into consideration the nuances of the characters and what the actors bring to their roles.

Chinese Director

John Fusco

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

James Gray

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.

American Director

Paul Schrader

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

Phoebe Robinson

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.

American Comedian

Robert Ben Garant

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.

American Producer

Peter Landesman

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

William Goldman

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

American Novelist

Screenwriters are pivotal in the film industry, creating stories that movies are based on.

Film Industry

A good screenwriter needs strong writing skills, including dialogues and character development.

Writing Skills

Screenwriters often work with directors and producers to adjust the script as needed.

Collaborative Role

 Vuja de is when you look at something you've seen many times before and all of a sudden see it with fresh eyes. It's a screenwriter who looks at a movie script that can't get the green light for more than half a century. In every past version, the main character has been an evil queen.

The surprising habits of...

 Revenge is one way of feeling we've restored a sense of balance, of justice in the world and a sense of power for ourselves. So if that is something fundamental within us and you have a clever screenwriter, storyteller, cinematographer, they would portray this and that would

The Psychology of Game...

 I think this is where the screenwriter in me was at home in Lebanon, in the streets at home and the house I grew up in, because I became fascinated with human flaws and vulnerabilities and the truth that comes out of us in times of crisis and when we’re put under pressure.

How Film Captures the...

 and the greater truth behind it is one of philosophy's most vexing problems. It's been the subject of thousands of pages by theologians, philosophers, and screenwriters alike. It raises questions like should we trust our senses to come to the truth

Plato’s best (and worst)...

 I got a phone call from the representative of a screenwriter that began pretty much the way all of those conversations "I've got Leo's next movie." Now in this movie, that his client had written, Leo would play an oil industry lobbyist

How I accidentally...

 so, how much money does that movie make -- comparing if a man or a woman filled each of the following director, producer, screenwriter and lead actor. And in every single category, the return on investment is higher if it's a woman.

What it's like to be a...

 in a neighborhood of screenwriters, actors and filmmakers, the trio assumed the invisibility that each senior does. I would ask myself, "How is it that no one else sees these three human beings?

Intimate photos of a...

 What does she suffer from? We should really pray for her." One commenter even suggested that I add my disability to my screenwriter, comedian, palsy. Disability is as visual as race.

I got 99 problems......

 commercials and commercials led to feature films and then in 1999 Steven Spielberg turned my production design practice upside down he hired a screenwriter and me on the same day the

The role of disruption...

 as a screenwriter I love telling stories about people who overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles where you're wondering how these characters you come