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I started in Shakespeare. I'm classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing. Nia Vardalos
Writing Thought Hilarious Saw Would City Wow One-Night Shakespeare Never How Trained Want Screenplay Which Then Second Started Second City Night
If you create a fun environment, people will take liberties and grow and expand. And then you'll get your final screenplay in my favorite style, which is 'tossed away' - as if the actor just thought of it. Nia Vardalos
You People Will Thought Style Final Liberties Favorite Tossed Take Environment Expand Get Just Screenplay Which Then Create Your Fun Grow Actor Away
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. Nicholas Meyer
Will Finished Building Something Finished Product Never Most Likely Built Blueprint Screenplay Product Novel
After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out. Nick Harkaway
Myself Director Writing Few Tea Out Wrote Making End Quite Screenplay Wanted After In The End January Then Brief Film Found Started Assistant University
Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is. Patricia Marx
Best Everyone Sure Screenplay Chinatown Thinks
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating. Patrick Wang
Time Strange Find Songs Written Sort Tapestry Human Screenplay Form Place Really Across Fascinating Series Monologues
When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it. Peter Morgan
Death Me Director Writing Queen Tony Blair Andy About Blair Both Put Princess Princess Diana Diana Screenplay Aftermath Producer Started Tony
When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension. Phyllida Lloyd
Think Apprehension Immediate About Read Felt Thatcher Screenplay Asked Margaret Margaret Thatcher
Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready. Prabhu Deva
You Problem Language Never Ready Screenplay
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. Preston Sturges
Director Before Directing Had He Wrote Read Did Shooting Screenplay Script Regular Harder Started Night
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. Preston Sturges
Me Director Easy Directing Writer Wrote Because Did Screenplay
Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it. R. Madhavan
Only Towards Any Screenplay Happen Story Working Whole Unit Professionally
I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset. R. Madhavan
Work Me Would Give Give Me Directors Outset Written Screenplay Script Prefer Who
'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career. Rajinikanth
Best Screenplay Career
Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it. Rakul Preet Singh
People Entitled Say Performance Like Cater Liked Execution Audience Leaves Reviewers Wondering Screenplay Certain Should They Say Film Things Watch
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood. Rani Mukerji
Writing Girl Three Understanding Young Gone Films No Idea About Had Idea Dialogue Shoots Any Childhood Just Just As Much Screenplay Young Girl Process Etc Scripts Much Who Whole Bollywood Film Watches Two Filmmaking
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. Richard Attenborough
Important Nothing More Making Making Movies Than Screenplay Movies
I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. Richard Price
Book Judge Too See Ten Ten Times Physically Never Like Wrote Reactions Read Close Times Accurately Just Different Movie Screenplay
The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. Ridley Scott
You Single Single Thing Bloody Get Screenplay Hardest Right Thing
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. Ridley Scott
Time Me Better Films Would Would-Be Rather Write Writer Take Make Than Screenplay Movies Two
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. Robert B. Parker
You Will Whatever Entirely Until Make Accepted Going Want Screenplay Them Ignore Show Twenty Publication Published Drafts Suggestions
You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process? Robert Towne
You People Communicate Torn Between Knowing Understand How Up Going Screenplay Wanting Screw Spaces Process Really Who Fill
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. Rupert Sanders
Best Me Writing Reading Every Other Others Directors Writers Read None Were Being Screenplay Sent Choosing
For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest. Ruskin Bond
Took Collaborate Seven Husbands Small Priest Role Did Screenplay Story Which Even Film Adapted
On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer. Sam Shepard
Beautiful Great Every Think Everyone Potential Writer Environment Over Around Opinion Got Screenplay Form Place Producers Film Awful
Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Time Made Every Every Time Must Powerful Read Screenplay Realised
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