Scripts Quotes

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

I can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.

I didn't like the script [of Aquarius], I loved it.

When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest.

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.