Scripts Quotes

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

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

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

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Good scripts are hard to find.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.