Scripts Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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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 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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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
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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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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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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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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 have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.
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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 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 had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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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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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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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 have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
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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.
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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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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.
