Scripts Quotes
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What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.
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I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
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So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.
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I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.
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On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.
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I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.
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I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
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American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
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I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.
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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.
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The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
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To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
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I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
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It is a conscious choice to go for content-driven scripts because that is the key for any film to work. There are no two ways about it, and I have always been attracted to great content.
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I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
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I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
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I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
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I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
