“Make your readers hear the pauses between the sentences. Let them see characters lean forward, fidget with their cuticles, avert their eyes, uncross their legs.”
Jerome Stern

“I wrote the script for Rocky in three days. I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary. And did that ever make the bestseller list?”
Sylvester Stallone

“Most heads of studio stop reading scripts when they get their jobs and become hostage to the reports of low-paid readers, who are usually young, frustrated filmmakers.”
John Boorman

“I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.”
David Niven

“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
David Ogden Stiers