Scripts Quotes

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

I am here to act only in films with good script.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.