“A lot of people in Hollywood considered The Jacket an unfilmable screenplay.”

“But in spite of some of the absurdism of this screenplay, it's really an intimate, fairly direct examination of self-awareness.”

“The rule states that either the most popular or the most significant film gets the Academy award for best screenplay.”

“A decade of screenwriting followed, until a publisher asked him to turn a children's telemovie he had just written into a book.”

“For a while, the film keeps the viewer's interest, but the screenwriting isn't clever enough to make it seem worthwhile.”

“With all the amply portioned and sun-dappled pleasure going around, fair play as defined by screenwriting manuals hardly seems a pressing issue.”

“Doyle's screenplays for the film adaptions of his Barrytown Trilogy novels were brilliant.”

“Expectedly, he began to learn the ropes of movies and worked on screenplays.”

“Mamet has written the screenplays for many commercial films on a for-hire basis.”