Screenwriters Quotes

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“Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.”
A.D. Posey

“I hear you in the morning sun.”
A.D. Posey

“Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.”
A.D. Posey

James Morcan
“Formulaic thinking is the antithesis of art.”
James Morcan

Gerard de Marigny
“Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.”
Gerard de Marigny

“You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.”
A.D. Posey

Ana Claudia Antunes
“Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots.”
Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

Rona Edwards
“If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out”
Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

“In essence we are pure desire. That desire is an expression of a moment and that moment becomes a series of moments we call life.

Suspended on the hands of an evanescent ticking. Pending on the beat of a vein woven drum. Fragile and fleeting. Ever mysterious and expanding.

My outer life was full. My inner life was like rampant Boston ivy and aspects of my soul were more akin to cities than archetypes.

Deluged with words and pulses, in poetry I am but the result of all those who came before me. I represent more than I am able to comprehend.

My expression is the result of all those who slain me and all those who heal me. Thank you differently and the same, for the hues of my emotional palette only deepened and multiplied like the cells of some thousand galaxies.

Pent, it was time for my expression to vent.”
Nicole Bonomi

“Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.”
Adrienne Posey

Julie Buxbaum
“What I’ve never understood is why the boys are always shocked when they get their first glance of their newly made-up date, as if the girls weren’t already beautiful despite their penchant for androgynous clothing. Do
screenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?”
Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

James Lee Burke
“You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.'
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
James Lee Burke, Robicheaux

“Coffee and screenwriting go hand in hand.”
Adrienne Posey

“I love screenwriting. It's simple and mathematical, yet it has the beauty of science and chemistry, the wonder of mystery, and the love of a wild heart.”
Adrienne Posey

“Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.”
Adrienne Posey

“When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.”
Adrienne Posey

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”
Adrienne Posey

“The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.”
Adrienne Posey

“Screenwriting is made of brevity.”
Adrienne Posey

“There is magic in the old and magic in the new. The trick is to successfully combine the two.”
Adrienne Posey

Sonia Choquette
“A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.”
Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie.
Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell.
But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script.”
Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

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