Scripts Quotes

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

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.

I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

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

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

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

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

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

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

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

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

I get so excited about reading a new script.

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.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

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.

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

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 think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.