Scripts Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
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I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
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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 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.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.
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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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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 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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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 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 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 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 have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
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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 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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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
