Scripts Quotes

I can't remember what my first script was.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

I tend to look for a great script.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.

I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...