Many literary figures fail to make an impact as screenwriters. There is a basic difference between cinema and literature. Cinema is an aggregate of several brilliant technologies, and personalities. Literature is an aggregate of several personal thoughts of a single individual. Cinema is a teamwork, whereas literature is an individual effort.  Literature can afford long prose to build up a scene, whereas the same impact can be captured in cinema by camera movements. As cinema is a visual medium, a jerk of the head of a flutter of an eyelash can have the same impact as that of the several written pages. Writers sometime are so prolific with words that the scene becomes unfilmable. The cinematic techniques are used to translate a writer’s ardour. The greatest contribution is that of the director and the editor. Music and cinematography too are helpful. In cinema, space and time are to be handled deftly. Cinema requires a new breed of writers. Their fiction makes the imaginative spaces real. Cinema also uses silence very effectively. Silence speaks far more than the speech.