How to Use scriptwriter in a Sentence

scriptwriter

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  • Diego Sotelo is a great scriptwriter and David Moreno as well.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Yours may well be the only show there that doesn’t use a director or a scriptwriter.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Jacir's strong suits are as a scriptwriter and as a director of actors.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Instead of proposing a ban, the Guild wants scriptwriters to be able to use generative A.I. and then claim the credit for the script.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • One of their two boys, John Marshall, reviewed multiple drafts of the movie’s script and helped the scriptwriters capture his dad.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
  • If the bad guy turns out to be lurking just off screen, Hollywood’s scriptwriters may yet have a plot worth watching.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The best sports analogies come from the minds of the professional scriptwriters, Levien and Koppelman.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
  • The problem for the scriptwriters would be the absence of a villain for Ms. Yellen to fight, now that inflation seems to have all but disappeared.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The super-talented scriptwriter, Ron Nyswaner, came to see me in Brighton a year or so later to discuss the novel and the script.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Only a movie scriptwriter could come up with a scenario of a football coach needing a new heart to save his life who works at a high school named Hart.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The book follows a few days in the life of Fred, a hack scriptwriter who recently attained an Adonis physique so as to screw his way through a bout of heartbreak.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 May 2020
  • In 2009, her story hit Broadway as a play, written by Dan Gordon, who is also the film’s scriptwriter.
    — Katarzyna Grynienko, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Now become a scriptwriter who is creating a new positive scene out of a past event.
    — Silke Glaab, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • For the show’s scriptwriters, Taiwan’s #MeToo moment has not fully arrived.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • The removal of Peng’s posts comes on the heels of the case earlier this year of scriptwriter Zhou Xiaoxuan, also known as Xianzi.
    — Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
  • As a music supervisor, how much does your job coalesce with that of the scriptwriter?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Now for the first time, researchers have used these natural DNA scriptwriters to modify genes in human cells.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • Rick Herrington on the mend Only a movie scriptwriter could come up with a scenario of a football coach, who works at a high school named Hart, needing a new heart to save his life.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • His earthy demeanor is a product of his Midwestern roots, his years as a Hollywood scriptwriter and his long journey to the Sunset Strip.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The scriptwriters, wisely, are vague about dates and avoid naming presidents or public figures.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • But the scriptwriters did not merely develop these relationships over the series’ ten years.
    — J.t., The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Like a scriptwriter creating a narrative arc, Vardag would use those details to help her communicate the dynamics of her clients’ married life and convince the judge in the process.
    — Tara John/london, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • According to The Hollywood Reporter, the tech giant outbid multiple companies to land the deal with the scriptwriter.
    — Mia Uzzell, Essence, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Around the same time, reports circulated that movie’s scriptwriter Jeff Loveness had also exited the film.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Chris Metz, the musical’s scriptwriter and co-director (with choreographer Stacee Perry), said the issues explored in the play are familiar to the cast members.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Sandelion is bringing to the table the Colombian director and scriptwriter, as well as those responsible for sound and color, and Tabares-Duque production work.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Religion, which is also of great interest to the director and the scriptwriter, is also a sensitive topic.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • These grueling set pieces are all of a piece with the picture's sledgehammer approach; likewise the scriptwriters' tendency to spell everything out as if the viewers were too dumb to puzzle things out for themselves.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Were a scriptwriter to pitch the plot, it would be dismissed for convoluted implausibility.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
  • What is already known would beggar the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.
    — National Geographic, 11 June 2016

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