"I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why – but we re…"

"[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that."

"I moved into directing for a couple of reasons. ... Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the scree…"

"Mostly, you write a script and someone’s gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of—not hundred but they get ten w…"

"It seems to me it's the hardest thing 'cause you're starting from nothing and creating something. Everybody else is i…"

"A rule says "You must do it this way". A principle says, "This works... and has through all remembered time." The dif…"

"In the 80’s and much of the 90’s, [[w:Joe Eszterhas|[Joe] Eszterhas]] was Hollywood’s best-paid screenwriter, sometim…"

"The people who make movies are actually desperate for good material. They’re desperate. And honestly if you write a b…"

"This...is why screenwriting pays so well. They don't pay me to write. I'd write for free. They pay me NOT to punch pe…"

"Interviewer: The book also assembles several scraps of paper, on which you wrote bits of dialogue or character develo…"