Scripts Quotes
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Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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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.
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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 think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this."
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They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
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You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.
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It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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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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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.
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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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I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.
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'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.
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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
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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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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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A script is only as good as the director who's making 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 can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV.
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I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
