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These screenwriter quotes acknowledge the tough odds of the job, noting that developing films with directors and actors is often a poor bet writers have Always known.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Quotes by Tony Gilroy

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Nov 07, 2020

Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

Quotes by Stephen McFeely

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Nov 07, 2020

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Quotes by Sadie Jones

Nov 07, 2020

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

Quotes by Marshall Brickman

Nov 07, 2020

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

Quotes by Kanika Dhillon

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Nov 07, 2020

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

Quotes by John Francis Daley

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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Quotes by James Frey

Others express a lifelong pull toward writing and deep respect for legendary screenwriters, worshipped almost as if at an Altar of craft.

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