Script Quotes
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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.
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I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.
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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.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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.
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The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
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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.
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Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.
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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.
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Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
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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.
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I don't come from a film background, so I am free to work in any script that interests me.
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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
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I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.
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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.
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You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
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Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
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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.
