Scripts Quotes
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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 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 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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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 had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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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 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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My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
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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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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 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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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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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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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
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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.
