Scriptwriters Quotes

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don't know any.

The entertainment industry is humungous, and people have so many choices right now - they can watch web series, movies, stand-up comedies, and plays.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

The roster of 'Lucha Underground' would definitely be excited about a fifth season. Same thing with the producers and everybody.

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter.

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

The only difference in reality TV and the other TV is that the scriptwriters for reality TV are not union. I have been on reality TV shows. Believe me, my friends: It's not just improv and whatever happens when the cameras are rolling.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

Films make stars and stars never make films.