“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.” WritingReadingDirectorsScreenplays Author:Rupert Sanders
“Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.” VisionDependsDirectorsScreenplays Author:Tom Skerritt
“Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.” DirectorsDegreesConceptsSevenCirclesVisualsScreenplaysRatiosFull Circle Author:Elia Kazan
“I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.” I CanInterestingImagineStyleMinesDirectorsVery InterestingScreenplaysPersonal Style Author:Woody Allen
“One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.” WayWantWritingImportantReasonVoiceCan DoNovelHellEasierDirectorsReason WhyNo ReasonYou Can Do ItScreenplays Author:Quentin Tarantino
“David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.” IfsKnowsMeanHateDirectorsControversyPlaywrightScreenplaysHate Him Author:Tom Hardy
“I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.” WritingDirectorsScreenplays Author:Deepa Mehta
“I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.” MenWritingYearsFilmThreeFatherFeltRoomsFourBrotherDirectorsHusbandDirectNovelistsFilmmakerMy HusbandScreenplaysCinematographersThree Brothers Author:Lucia Puenzo
“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'” IfsNeedsWritingLooksBoysGreaterEasierDirectorsEqualDirectMalesConvincedListsTrickyScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Nora Ephron
“To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research.” IfsDoneHonestPerspectiveDirectorsResearchBeing HonestScreenplays Author:Christina Ricci
“If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.” IfsKnowsI CanStoriesHappensChanceLuckyDirectorsGood StoryScreenplays Author:Ayelet Zurer
“If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. One of those factors needs to happen. If not, it's sad.” IfsNeedsGivingEnoughHappensActorsChanceInterestingDirectorsProjectsPagesBrilliantFactorsScreenplays Author:Ayelet Zurer
“Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.” KnowsWayWantWritingDifferentEndsActorsViewsKnownDirectorsRapCollaborationInvitedScreenplaysDifferent Views Author:Matt Damon
“I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsWantedEarthYoungFoundFictionTalkingWrittenDirectorsProjectsScreenplaysAmbivalentHootMorris Author:Jim Shepard
“My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.” FirstsKindWantedTogetherFilmCollegeBrotherDirectorsMajorsMy BrotherBottlesTexasRocketsScreenplaysLukeAustinRoommateShort FilmsEnglish MajorAustin TexasBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director has run a one-off game, but if Hamlet were written last year and had been only performed once as a film, and it didn't come off well on screen for whatever reason, it would be gone forever as a literary work, and never would have been considered as one.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensReasonWould BeRunningLastsFilmMovingGamesGoneForeverWrittenDirectorsScreensLast YearScreenplaysRogerLiterary Works Author:William Monahan
“First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don really got Bubba and I didn't think it could be a film. I thought it was too odd to make it to film. He asked me to do the screenplay, but I declined. I didn't see that it could be a screenplay but he wrote one and proved me wrong. He was always considerate about what I thought about the film and the story's presentation, but in the end, he's the director and he had to make decisions. All good ones.” ThinkingFirstsHas BeensEndsStoriesFilmInterestDecisionDirectorsOddAlasPresentationScreenplaysConsiderateFruitionBubba Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.” KindRealFilmSpiritLuckyDirectorsProjectsHollywoodDown AndAll KindsBeatenCrushedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Daniel Clowes