Scriptwriting Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided that I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose, and that perhaps a reputation may come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses. ~ Christopher Lee

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

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

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

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