From Ken Levine:
“Directors [...] have cinematographers to make them look good, special effects guys, second unit directors, Industrial Light & Magic, editors, Judi Densch [sic]. But writers just have that blank screen.
Writing is lonely, directing is social. Writing is wishing, directing is making. Writing is losing your credit in arbitration, directing is taking credit for [...]
From James Cameron:
“[Stan Winston] said that once you’ve shown something is possible, everybody can do it. What was important was being first. Breaking new ground.”
From John August:
“The time to move on is when reaching the “best version” of your script ceases to be interesting to you.”
From Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer:
“Write hot. Revise cold.”
From Drew McWeeny:
“My biggest question to the studios is this: what are you going to be remaking in 20 years? If you refuse to greenlight original visions right now, and all you’re doing is this cinematic grave-robbing over and over and over and over again, then what are you going to do 20 years from [...]
From James Henry:
“When you start, you are not as good as you think you are. When you’ve been writing for a bit, you [...] are probably not as bad as you fear you might be.”
From Jon Schwartz:
“Yo! [...] Any new scripts (that aren’t horrible like the others)?
From ScriptGirl:
“You can’t sell it, if you don’t write it.”
From me:
“A screenplay without a movie is like a table without legs.”
From MontiLee Stormer:
“Go. Make words. Make them quiver.”
