A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what`s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.  
- Stanley Kubrick

Do not be told something is impossible. There is always a way.
– Robert Rodriguez

If you’ve got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I’m concerned. It’s the only job where you don’t have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up.
– Robert Mark Kamen

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
- Tom Stoppard

You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.
― Scott William Carter

It wasn’t until about the fifth draft of ‘sixth sense’ that I really began to figure it out. It was then that I realized he’s dead. It took me five more drafts to execute it right.  
- M. Night Shyamalan

The first draft is nothing more than a starting point, so be wrong as fast as you can.  
- Andrew Stanton

Everyone who tells me they don’t have time to write, I just say, ‘One scene a night for three months, and you’ll have a movie—you can even use the weekends.’ It’s possible to be a writer if you want to be a writer, even without all the time in the world….After doing the dishes, instead of turning on the television or reading a book or going to the movies, write one scene. Whatever you do write one scene.   - Bruce Joel Rubin

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
– Will Shetterly

A structural approach to screenwriting requires patience and discipline, but the rewards are great. You might find if you spend three weeks hammering out your story, the actual screenwriting will take only a week.
- Greg Marcks