Harvey Pekar Quotes

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist

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• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Artist

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

  

  Doris Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Projects

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• 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.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Scripts
  • Jacuzzi

• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Joy
  • Easy
  • Scripts

• What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Made

• When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Energy
  • Scripts
  • Improvise

• I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • Character
  • Balance
  • Scripts

• 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.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • I Believe
  • Comedian
  • Scripts

• All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Scripts
  • Screen
  • Good Story

• When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Greek

• To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

  

  Shiloh Fernandez
  • Ideas
  • Computer
  • Fantastic

• There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Romance
  • Scripts
  • Desks

• I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Shows
  • Honest
  • Scripts

• Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Music
  • Theater
  • Scripts

• 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.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Feels
  • Speak
  • Instinct

• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Directors

• I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Salvation is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Salvation
  • Good Opinion

• Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Perfect
  • Boring

• Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Forgotten

• I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Scripts
  • Storyboard fashion
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