Sentence examples for screenplay read from inspiring English sources

Without an agent, it is nearly impossible to audition for a film or to get your screenplay read.

William B. Davis, the actor who portrayed the series' main antagonist The Smoking Man, argued that the screenplay read like Morgan and Wong deliberately wanted to go back to the stylistic origins of the series.

When I heard from an aspiring screenwriter asking to get his screenplay read by a film industry insider, I remembered an earlier note from a depressed comedy writer searching for a way to help others.

Last was a screenplay reading of The Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting award winner Gabriel Bergmoser's "Windmills: Leo".

The play, which opened at Soho Rep on Thursday night in a superb production directed by Sarah Benson, presents a blackly comic inversion of the public Disney persona, in the form of a stylized screenplay being read in an anonymous-looking corporate conference room.

Maybe Schumer, who also wrote the screenplay, should read a little Rebecca West: "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat".

One day you're in your study, and you have a character say the words: 'Come in, darling!' And then a year later, you're on set, and you see a quite well-known actress say: 'Come in, darling.' When I won the Oscar – that's a good throwaway line, if ever there was one – they have this thing where not only the dialogue of the nominated screenplays is read out, but the stage directions, too.

After all, screenplays are read anonymously and who remembers who actually wrote Driving Miss Daisy?

Occasionally the bosses would give me screenplays to read, some of them already in production and some of them clearly never ever ever destined to be produced, and I would write a "coverage".

(Forget about writing that novel or screenplay – or reading the new translation of War and Peace, or even this week's New Yorker).

But I thought this script, by Charlie Kaufman, who wrote "Being John Malkovich," was the best screenplay I'd read in a long time.