Scripts Quotes

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.