Script Quotes
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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
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You can almost take the book and use it as a script.
Michael Winterbottom
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If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci
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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.
Deepa Mehta
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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.
Simon Pegg
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Every film starts with the script.
Wolfgang Petersen
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I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.
Corey Feldman
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I decided to write Collateral Beauty on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
Allan Loeb
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There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
Amanda Seyfried
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I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
Paul Mazursky
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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
Steven Spielberg
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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Sydney Pollack
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The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.
Dave McKean
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette Davis
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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
Ewan McGregor
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The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
Steven Soderbergh
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The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.
Brigid Brannagh
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They are getting tougher and tougher. I don't know if someone will make a movie on us, but they would have a good script.
Bob Hartley
