If your looking to write a quote in a screenplay, you’ve come to the right article.
The format is virtually the same. It looks a little like this:
QUOTE:
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."
- Ebby Calvin -
END QUOTE
This version I would use in the begging when the film hasn’t started yet. For example, like the quotes Quintin Tarinito does at the beginning of his scripts.
If it’s in the middle of a film, it would be best to show quotes when starting a new scene.
Then I would put it right under the new scene heading.
Like this:
INT. NEW ORLANDO PARK - DAY
Description
QUOTE:
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."
- Ebby Calvin -
END QUOTE
Or if it’s after a scene ends, I would use CUT TO:
Like this:
CUT TO:
QUOTE:
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."
- Ebby Calvin -
END QUOTE
INT. NEW ORLANDO PARK - DAY
Using Quotes in Movies Examples
Let’s see how the quotes were written in a professional script, and we have an excellent example in kill bill.
Now let’s see how it looks in the film.
Why did he use this quote?
It describes the whole film.
The entire film is about revenge. And the bride who is lying has dead in the beginning is the one who doesn’t care how she gets it. She wants it. It’s the perfect word for this type of film. Let’s hear them in the comments below.