Top 22 Quotes About Scriptwriting
#1. I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.
Iris Apfel
#2. I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.
Colleen Hoover
#3. In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket ... the least understood and the least noticed.
Frank Capra
#5. There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
Arthur Hopkins
#6. The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig
#8. I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
Barbra Streisand
#9. I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Steven Wright
#10. I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
Jonathan Ames
#11. I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
Kate Bush
#12. I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.
David Labrava
#13. Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
Shonda Rhimes
#14. I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
#15. My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
Graham Yost
#16. I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.
Haile Gerima
#17. The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
Leslie Stephen
#18. The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#19. I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
Joan Rivers
#20. Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
Stella Adler
#21. Perry, I love you," he said, voice gruff and full of conviction. "I love you absolutely, resolutely. There is no question, no doubt. This love just is. It exists and because it exists, I exist ...
"You, only you, just you as you are, are my reason for being.
Karina Halle
#22. If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
Charles Stross
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