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Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away. -- Judd Hirsch
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. -- Teller
I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value. -- Bruce Robinson
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. -- Tom Riley
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around. -- William H. Macy
You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie. -- William H. Macy
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case. -- David Mamet
I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long. -- Joss Whedon
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right. And consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and got to "Kill Bill" volume 1 and 2. -- Quentin Tarantino
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair. -- Scott Frank
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. -- Al Pacino
Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance. -- Sarah Brightman

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