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But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

The most important thing is the script.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.

The only thing that works is a good script!

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.