Script Quotes

• I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • I Love
  • Choose
  • Script

• It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Project
  • Fantastic

• My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Approach
  • Script
  • Intuitive

• Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • People
  • Making
  • Finish

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Bad
  • Show Me
  • Payday

• After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Job
  • Paramount
  • Divergent

• Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

  

  Dana White
  • Things
  • Better
  • Write

• I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Fun
  • Read
  • Script

• I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.

  

  Suriya
  • Director
  • Script
  • Mind-blowing

• We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

  

  Josh Holloway
  • Life
  • Art
  • Script

• I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Write

• I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

  

  Anne Fletcher
  • People
  • See
  • Script

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

  

  Courtney Love
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • Pioneering

• Some people have scripts and scripts and lots of scripts, and they change it all the time. Even though [Jean-Luc Godard] had no script, he had it all in his heart and in his brain. He can explain it to you in a way where even if you get the dialogue five minutes before in the morning and you have to shoot it later, at least you have an idea about it, because he takes his time to explain things and to do the movements with you. There was always lots of rehearsal.

  

  Anna Karina
  • Change
  • Explain
  • Script

• Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Enough
  • Finally
  • Revealed

• My wife told me, "Listen, you have to do something big, beautiful story." I remember that I read The Shack script and I told her that there is a big message over here, and as a Jew, I read the script, and I didn't see anything that connects to religion. It's not about religion, it's about faith, it's about God, and I connected with it, because from my point of view, there is God in this world.

  

  Aviv Alush
  • Religion
  • View
  • Script

• I was cast last minute for Casino Royale. They asked me to fly to Prague. I liked the script very much. I flew to Prague and did a bit of an audition. I was really focused and stressed out. And Daniel Craig was there. He was very, very blonde, like a Steve McQueen. He's moving a lot in real life. He's quite nervous. He was very lovely, very patient, and really connecting with me when we did the screen test.

  

  Eva Green
  • Real Life
  • Connecting
  • Stressed

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

  

  Naomi Grossman
  • Script
  • Pages
  • Breathless

• The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Role
  • Script

• I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon 2000, and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Character
  • Play
  • Girls

• There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Script
  • Improvisation
  • Marks

• Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Reading
  • Script
  • Legal document

• You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.

  

  Georgina Haig
  • Character
  • Ways
  • Script

• You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Character
  • Death
  • Stage

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