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Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.”

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Author:Nigel Kneale

“Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.”

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Author:William Bernhardt

“America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.”

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Author:Peter Straughan

“My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.””

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Author:Mahesh Bhatt

“How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors”

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Book:The Diviner's Tale

Source: The Diviner's Tale

“When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.”

Thinking Doe I Can Support Playwright Screenwriters

Author:Tony Kushner

“I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.”

Thinking Screenwriters Concise

Author:Eric Roth

“There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.”

Term Stealing Songwriters Screenwriters

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.”

“A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.”

Fire Dog Bunch Screenwriters

Author:Frank Miller

“Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.”

Would Be Journalist Screenwriters

Author:Nora Ephron

“Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

“You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.”

“Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.”

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Author:Ritwik Ghatak

“Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.”

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Author:David Benioff

“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.”

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Author:Buster Keaton

“I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.”

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Author:Paul Schrader

“Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking the Earth - perhaps as many as a half dozen of them - with less directorial talent, but they've been safely diverted into other activities.”

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Author:Mick LaSalle

“You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.”

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Book:Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay

Source: Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay

“I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.”

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Author:Scott Aukerman

“If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably a worthy endeavor for you. You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.”

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Author:Derek Sivers

“I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.”

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Author:Julia Cameron

“When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.”

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Author:Aravind Adiga

“From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.”

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Author:Joe Eszterhas

“When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.”

Reason Screenwriters Mercenary

Author:James Frey

“Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.”

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Author:Tony Gilroy

“No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.”

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Author:Tony Gilroy

“In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.”

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Author:Christopher Guest

“And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.”

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Author:David Benioff

“If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

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