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I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.