Scripts Quotes

• 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

• I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

  

  Eugene Green
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Nervous

• My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Scripts
  • Mentality
  • Retired

• 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

• 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

• Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I've had to say no to some people; I suspect that's the reason I'm called arrogant.

  

  Nivin Pauly
  • Actor
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Shooting
  • Odd
  • Episodes

• I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

  

  Erika Christensen
  • Family
  • Excited
  • Scripts

• That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script Voltron is very matter of factly.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Voice
  • Matter
  • Actors

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

  

  Harry Harrison
  • Scripts
  • Rewrites

• If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

  

  Melissa McBride
  • Answers
  • Scripts

• The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Internet
  • Letters
  • Description

• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Stories

• There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Littles
  • Hopefully
  • Immortal

• 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 enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Enjoy
  • Growing Up
  • Writers

• 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

• We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Role
  • Played
  • Scripts

• 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 work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

  

  Steve Truglia
  • Film
  • Scripts
  • Stunt

• A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Different
  • Book
  • Vision

• I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Years

• When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such a wonderful script and it was quite complex and there wasn't a hell of a lot of improvising I could do to bring to the table, but I guess what I did bring was a sense of self and that the reason I was cast was because I did come across as someone who possibly was only human for a short time.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Reason
  • Humans
  • Wonderful

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