Script Quotes

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

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Product
  • Script
  • Final

• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Script

• I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Budget
  • Location
  • Promotion

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Responsibilities

• I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Movie
  • Right

• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Script
  • Producers
  • Jonathan Harker

• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Movie
  • Understood
  • Awful

• Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • House
  • Stories
  • White House

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Great
  • Think
  • Inspired

• About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Learn
  • Girls
  • Nervous

• I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that time and what's going on in the newspapers, so you reflect on that and you feed it into your stories in some way.

  

  Eran Creevy
  • Stories
  • Press
  • Reflect

• You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Earth
  • Built
  • Pyramids

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

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

• As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Amuse

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

  

  Steven Zaillian
  • Film
  • Script
  • Scenes

• You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Define

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

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Time
  • Music
  • Experience

• I got the script, read the script, really liked it.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Read
  • Script
  • Like It

• And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him - just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes Anderson and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Thinking
  • Years
  • Learned

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