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Screenwriting is about condensing.
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.
Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that.
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.
Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they're mostly pretty crappy.
People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.