Movie Script Writing Quotes

#1. I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Steve Martin

#2. The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

Maggie Carey

#3. At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Louis Garrel

#4. Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Herbert Spencer

#5. I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

Robert Ludlum

#6. I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Todd Phillips

#7. In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be.

Todd Haynes

#8. But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

David Cronenberg

#9. God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

Sue Augustine

#10. I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

Andy Behrman

#11. Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about.

Ellen Page

#12. Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Peter Dinklage

#13. You snuck up on me," she said. "I guess I'm not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?"
Simon shrugged. "Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

Cassandra Clare

#14. What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

John Lasseter

#15. It's amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

Bill Hybels

#16. As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.

Jason Katims

#17. The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

David Feherty