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I consider myself a good screenwriter.
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
I think the best black screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.
I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.
I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Capra always wanted a screenwriter with him, even on the soundstage. The writer had to be there at his side.
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.
As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, 'This is what my day is like,' it would have been really helpful.
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.
My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'
My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor.
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.
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
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.
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.
I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.