Scripts Quotes

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.