Sentence examples for reading a screenplay from inspiring English sources

Save for movie geeks and industry aspirants, why would anyone bother reading a screenplay?

The result is that we frequently feel as if we were reading a screenplay, with scenes and dialogue and mechanical crosscutting but no dramatic weight — and no novelty.

Then I snobbishly thought: "Am I reading a screenplay?" But I probably only had that thought knowing I was going to write a review and might have to produce clever, negative things to say.

I've never read a screenplay in advance.

"If I am asked to read a screenplay, I have an answer.

The problem is that all executives think they know how to read a screenplay.

"When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension," she says.

"When you read a screenplay, it doesn't come with a picture on the cover," said Adam Siegel, president of Marc Platt Productions, a producer who is friends with all four women and has worked with all except Ms. Cody.

Then she asked if he would read a screenplay she had just begun: a Western biopic about a black U.S. marshal, Bass Reeves.

When he was going to graduate, he let me read a screenplay he was going to do after graduation, and I said 'You're not in school anymore, you have to stop doing shorts.

On the plane over I had finished reading an old screenplay for Your Highness.