Screenplays Quotes

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years

~ Tim Cummings

Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from Descendants of the Eminent)

~ Tim Cummings

I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.

~ Tim Cummings

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

~ William Goldman

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.

~ Emma Thompson

There is magic in the old and magic in the new, the trick is to successfully combine the two.

~ A.d. Posey

Novelist by day, screenwriter by night.

~ A.d. Posey

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Try everything, listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

~ Jeff Lyons

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

~ Jeff Lyons

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

~ Solange Nicole

Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn’t anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don’t want to begin with “Once upon a time,” because the audience gets antsy.

~ William Goldman