"Screenplays are Structure."
WILLIAM GOLDMAN (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Stepford Wives)

"That Academy Award-winning script will come. But the first goal is to learn the basics, enough to get into the game."
TED ELLIOTT and TERRY ROSSIO (Shrek, Pirates of the Carribean)

"I happen to be one of those irrational persons who think that a film cannot be any good if it isn't well written."
ERNEST LEHMAN (North by Northwest)

"If I wanted a long, boring story with no point to it, I've got my life."
JERRY SEINFELD (Seinfeld)

"In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He is changed psychologically, maybe even physically."
ROBER TOWNE (Chinatown)