Quotes, credits, and insights from the best screenwriters of all time.
- Woody Allen – Manhattan, Annie Hall, Midnight in Paris
- Judd Apatow – Knocked Up, The Forty Year Old Virgin
- Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3, Oblivion
- Dustin Lance Black – Milk, J. Edgar, Big Love
- Shane Black – Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- James Cameron – Titanic, Terminator, Avatar
- Paddy Chayefsky – Network, Marty
- Diablo Cody – Juno, Young Adult
- Joel & Ethan Coen – True Grit, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Cameron Crowe – Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous
- Frank Darabont – The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead
- Katie Dippold – Ghostbusters, The Heat
- Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio – Shrek, Pirates of the Caribben, Aladdin
- Nora Ephron – When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle
- Julius & Philip Epstein – Casablanca
- Joe Eszterhas – Basic Instinct, Flashdance
- William Goldman – Heat, All the President’s Men, The Princess Bride
- Akiva Goldsman – A Beautiful Mind, The Client, The Da Vinci Code
- Ben Hecht – Gone with the Wind, His Girl Friday, Scarface
- John Hughes – The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Sixteen Candles
- Lawrence Kasdan – Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back
- Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation.
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange
- Richard Linklater – Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, Boyhood
- John Logan – Any Given Sunday, Gladiator, Hugo
- Phil Lord & Christopher Miller – LEGO Movie, How I Met Your Mother
- Michael Mann – Public Enemies, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat
- Melissa Mathison – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun
- Karen McCullah & Kirsten Smith – Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You
- Christopher Nolan – Memento, Batman Begins, Inception
- Marti Noxon – Mad Men, Glee, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- David Webb Peoples – Blade Runner, Unforgiven, 12 Monkeys
- Harold Ramis – Ghostbusters, Animal House, Groundhog Day
- Eric Roth – Forrest Gump, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Aaron Sorkin – A Few Good Men, The Social Network, The West Wing
- Oliver Stone – Scarface, Platoon, Evita
- Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
- Joss Whedon – Toy Story, The Avengers, Serenity
- Billy Wilder – Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard
- Steven Zaillian – Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mission: Impossible