Screenwriters

A screenwriter is a person who writes the screenplays from which films are made. Many of them also work as "script doctors," attempting to change scripts to suit directors or studios; for instance studio management may have a complaint that the motivations of the characters are unclear or that the dialogue is weak. Script-doctoring can be quite lucrative, especially for the better known writers; David Mamet and John Sayles, for instance, fund the movies they direct themselves, usually from their own screenplays, by writing and doctoring scripts for others.

[Alan Ball]?

Francis Ford Coppola

[Nora Ephron]?

[Ben Hecht]?

[James Kearns]?

David Mamet

John Sayles

Tom Stoppard