Scene Description Quotes

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.