Scripts Quotes

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

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

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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.

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

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.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

It sucks when you read the script and you're like, "No, I liked that guy!" It's hard to read through the scripts sometimes, and just hope that people you like aren't gone. It scares you.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.