English Screenwriter Quotes

Jeanette Winterson

Charles Dance

Hanif Kureishi

Julian Fellowes

Mike Figgis

Jennifer Saunders

Lionel Jeffries

She had large, rather beautiful hazel eyes which she blinked rapidly from time to time. This habit gave her a timorous yet slightly defiant demeanour: the sort of girl who made a career out of being insecure.

Caroline Graham

In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isn't, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - won't you believe me?'

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Helen Cresswell

You just threw cheese at Sam & Mark. Don't you think they've suffered enough?!

There is no better xsample of a goody-goody than fotherington-tomas in the world in space. You kno he is the one who sa Hullo Clouds Hullo Sky and skip about like a girly.

Geoffrey Willans

I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime and by mid-afternoon you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause then it's wonderful. We're a strange bunch, we actors.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

We grabbed their hands and dragged them home. Ah, I hope they've forgiven me.

Lionel Jeffries

Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Monty, I'm not attracted to dudes. But if I had a boner for you, it's really trying right now.

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

Not instant, darling. Grind some beans. That's not proper coffee... that's just beans that have been cremated. I want them entire with life force.

Jennifer Saunders

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Julian Fellowes

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

Anthony Horowitz

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.

Jeanette Winterson

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.