Script Quotes

• 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

• The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Working
  • Thing

• 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
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• 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

• There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

  

  Amanda Seyfried
  • Director
  • Reasons
  • 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

• I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

  

  Eva Green
  • Interesting
  • Script
  • Audition

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Script

• 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
  • Mind
  • Direct
  • 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

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

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Script
  • Almost

• There was no actually stock footage in Medium Cool. I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Actors
  • Riots
  • Medium Cool

• I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Cinema
  • Script
  • Idiot

• My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

  

  Ayshay
  • Together
  • Actor
  • Script

• 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
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Director

• I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

  

  Paul Hogan
  • Open
  • Script
  • Oscar

• You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both with Ellen Page loved the script and the book Into the Forest, which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Hands
  • Talented
  • Craziness

• 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

• I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Time
  • Good
  • Follow

• 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

• The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Key
  • Script
  • Monkeying

• 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
  • Movie
  • Script
  • Tougher

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