Scriptwriting Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Its not how far you fall, but , how far you bounce thats matter — Billi Lim

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. — Graham Yost

God's design for taking the gospel to the world is a slow, intentional, simple process that involves every one of his people sacrificing every facet of their lives to multiply the life of Christ in others. — David Platt

He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life. — Tina Wright

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

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. — Alfie Allen

Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the designing are all the same. The technique of animation has changed, in the sense that rather than drawing it by hand, we use a computer as a tool. The computer has become a pencil to draw or paint the images that we see in a film. — Rob Minkoff

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem? — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. — Solange Nicole

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script
different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same. — Sam Lake

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

Sometimes, it seems to me that, the smaller the things is that people want, the bigger the disappointment when they don't get it, or it's not exactly right -dora — Erin McKean

I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The ones who nod in sympathy when their friends talked about street harassment, but whose lived experience involved more shouts of "lose some weight" than cat calls and leers. The — Jennifer Weiner

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket ... the least understood and the least noticed. — Frank Capra

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler