Scripts Quotes

• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Joy
  • Easy
  • Shooting

• 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.

  

  Cathy Moriarty
  • Past
  • Advice
  • Pieces

• I can't remember what my first script was.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Remember
  • Firsts
  • Scripts

• 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.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Moments

• I was deliciously happy filming True Blood. I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Office
  • Finished
  • Ritual

• I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Sometimes
  • Broke
  • Selective

• 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.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Directors

• I like to keep at my craft. I like to keep reading scripts, whether I'm in it or not because of the fact that what would I do in a certain case? How would this happen or how would that go? I like to keep working with my mind, so when I do perform I have something to perform with, and it's not just like trying on new clothes. You're trying on a suit, but you know where the heck the pants go.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Working
  • Clothes
  • Perform

• 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.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • I Love
  • Opinions
  • Filmmakers

• 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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Director
  • Female
  • Planetarium

• Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Kind
  • Written
  • Witty

• In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Own Life
  • Own creativity
  • Own story

• American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Conversation
  • Talking
  • Scripts

• The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Role
  • Priorities
  • Suffers

• 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.

  

  Shiloh Fernandez
  • Ideas
  • Computer
  • Fantastic

• I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Scripts
  • Tendencies

• What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Facts
  • Stills
  • Appreciated

• "A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.

  

  Ben Younger
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Improving

• I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Mean
  • Ability
  • Rhythm

• I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Scripts
  • Dictionary

• On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

  

  Carol Lynn Pearson
  • Happened
  • Scripts

• 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.

  

  Wolfgang Petersen
  • Trying
  • Situation
  • Realist

• I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Interesting
  • Independent
  • Films

• I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Write
  • Scripts
  • Screenwriting

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