Screenplays – Quotes

I wrote several screenplays

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes. Gabriel Campisi

My tombstone would someday

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. Gabriel Campisi

Writing is my number

Writing is my number one passion. I’ve written two novels. I’ve written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. Evangeline Lilly

I was in Los Angeles making ‘Dead Again’ and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I’d be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, ‘Well, of course, I’d be very interested, but I don’t know how. I don’t know where to start, A, writing a screenplay … Read more

I present the nominees,

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay. Emma Thompson

I’m very keen. Adaptations

I’m very keen. Adaptations of other people’s work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that’d be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it’s become one of my favorite genres. Emma Donoghue

I already feel a

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It’s a bit, I don’t know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There’s something too weirdly predictable about it. Emily Mortimer

Really, when I write

Really, when I write a book I’m the only one I have to please. That’s the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay. Elmore Leonard

I\\’ve quit writing screenplay

I’ve quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It’s too much work. I don’t look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk – it’s so satisfying. But screenwriting’s different. You might think you’re writing … Read more

I definitely want to

I definitely want to do more movies, and I’m also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I’m working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I’ve written by myself, and then I’m also working on one with my … Read more