"Story is everything. Dialogue can be great but if you don't sustain it no one will care." - Doug Ellin

"You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing." -Joss Whedon

“I think what marks bad dialogue against good dialogue is the absence of subtext. You have to have it.” – Billy Ray (Colour of Night, Volcano)

“Don’t do it if you don’t love it, and be enthusiastic about your work.” - Bruce Joel Rubin (Jacob's Ladder)

“Show up for the muse... If you want to write you can’t put it off. You’ve got to just get yourself there.” - Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

"What can't be taught to screenwriters? Tenacity and having a hard skin." - David Goyer (The Crow, Blade, Batman Begins) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“You realize how little [dialogue] really needs to be said.”– Ed Solomon

“We’re always trying to have everything come out of a very specific, personal place -specific, honest, and emotional." - Ganz & Mandel (City Slickers, Parenthood) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“I never speak in a notes meeting. I just sit there, I’m very polite, and I sip a Diet Coke.”– Jeff Nathanson

"I like to stretch the boundaries of genre and layer in as much interesting material as I can." - Jim Uhls. (Fight Club) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“All you have is your voice and your unique take on the world... that’s where you’ll achieve success.” - John Hamburg. THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“Some writers are just not capable of [outlining] they just don’t like it, they like to sit down, type fade-in and find their way into the story...”– Jonathan Hensleigh

“I find the craft of screenwriting to be like making cabinets or something. I really had to learn how to nail the nails.” - Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“I think the one thing that has proven to be true for us ..... is not to be married to your words necessarily, but to be married to the spirit of your words.” - Kurtzman & Orci (Mission Impossible III)

“Words are the last things that people do. They have the thought, they have the fear, they have another thought, they want to run, and finally, they speak.” - Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai)

WATCH A CLIP HERE “I think the lesson in everything that happened to me is don’t listen to the odds, don’t listen to the naysayers. If you have a story to tell, just write it."- Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

“I think that there’s something in the DNA of a script that can’t be taken out.” - Nick Kazan (At Close Range, Patty Hearst) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“What’s so interesting to me about writing screenplays is, it’s all about what you say and also what you don’t say in the screenplay.” - Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show)

"At the center of every story is some question I do not have the answer for, and something that really scares me." - Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby)

“In a comedy, you should go out on a joke or go out on something that propels you to the next scene.”– Peter Tolan

“I write forward, then I move backward, then I write forward. It’s a process so that my first draft has usually been worked through quite a bit.”– Robin Swicord

“In all of literature, no one is more brilliant than Winnie the Pooh. He says things that you can apply” - Scott Rosenberg (Things to do in Denver, Con Air, Beautiful Girls)

"Be that person who's stubborn enough to look in the face of the hurricane and not blink. " - Sheldon Turner. THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

The hardest part of genre films is making the characters real when their situations are so unreal– Simon Kinberg THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

"I love films that are simple stories with complex characters." - Stuart Beattie (Collateral) THE DIALOGUE: A groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

“There’s no scene in that movie that wasn’t rewritten any fewer than 35 times. I mean constantly, constantly rewriting.” - Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich)

“We don’t outline, we try to spend a lot of time on a good opening act where we try to create a character where just about anything could happen...”–The Farrelly Bros

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