Scripts Quotes
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You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
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We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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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.
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!
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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.
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My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
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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.
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I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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I get so excited about reading a new script.
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If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
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My process of choosing scripts remains the same. Of whatever I read and whatever excites me is what I will continue to take up.
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You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.
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The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?
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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
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Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.
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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.
