Good Screenwriter Quotes

#1. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

Rick Yancey

#2. To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

Star Jones

#4. Life is an X-rated soap opera.

John Irving

#5. I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

John Dyer

#6. Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

Edgar Cayce

#7. I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

Eric Roth

#8. Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Steven Bochco

#9. Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

Jack LaLanne

#10. When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Kristin Armstrong

#11. Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Bill Johnson

#12. I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

Vera Farmiga