Script Quotes

• 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

• Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Job
  • Project

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

  

  Anne Fletcher
  • People
  • See
  • Script

• 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

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

  

  Naomi Grossman
  • Script
  • Pages
  • Breathless

• 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.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Human
  • Actors
  • Possibly

• Every time I prep a script, I hear it in my head, but I have to keep my mind open so that when an actor does something different than that, I can think, 'Well, that wasn't what I had in mind, but it works. Let's go with that.' That's why you hire actors and not technicians to do voiceovers, because someone who will creatively bring something to the party.

  

  Andrea Romano
  • Actors
  • Head
  • Voiceovers

• Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • You
  • Read
  • Woody Allen

• 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.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • People
  • Writing
  • Envelope

• You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Script
  • Almost

• 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.

  

  Deepa Mehta
  • Films
  • Influenced
  • Necessarily

• 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 decided to write Collateral Beauty on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

  

  Allan Loeb
  • Years
  • Write
  • Script

• 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

• 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

• For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

  

  Sushant Singh Rajput
  • Important
  • Film
  • Script

• 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

• Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.

  

  Wyatt Russell
  • Sports
  • Baseball
  • Teaching

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

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Enough
  • Finally
  • Revealed

• I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

  

  John Lloyd Young
  • Character
  • Show
  • Script

• When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Script

• I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Good
  • Director
  • 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

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