Scripts Quotes

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

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Sometimes
  • Broke
  • Selective

• Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

  

  Eva Green
  • Roles
  • Limelight
  • Angelina Jolie

• 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 can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Stories

• I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Jews
  • Scripts
  • I Hate

• 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

• 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 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'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 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

• If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Movies
  • Characters
  • Descriptions

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Enjoy
  • Working
  • Films

• I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don't have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.

  

  Nivin Pauly
  • Right
  • Director
  • Technicians

• 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

• They've been through three scripts, 14 rewrites.

  

  Harry Harrison
  • Scripts
  • Rewrites

• 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

• 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.

  

  Ayushmann Khurrana
  • Content
  • Scripts
  • Attracted

• 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

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

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Scripts
  • Dictionary

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