Scripts Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Scripts
  • Dictionary

• Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Impossible
  • Scripts
  • Tasks

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Scripts

• 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

• When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.

  

  Michael Cudlitz
  • People
  • Long
  • Want

• 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 would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

  

  Judi Shekoni
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Process

• "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 just want to work on good scripts.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Work
  • Just
  • Scripts

• I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Want
  • Scripts
  • Leonardo

• If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Writing
  • Notebook
  • Outlining

• The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Office
  • Meetings
  • Studios

• I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

  

  Merritt Wever
  • Play
  • Scripts

• 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

• If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

  

  Terrence Malick
  • Jobs
  • Imagine
  • Filmmaker

• 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 believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • I Believe
  • Comedian
  • Scripts

• 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

• I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

  

  Casey Wilson
  • Said
  • Girlfriend
  • Babe

• I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

  

  William Monahan
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Waiting
  • Talking
  • Refuse

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