Firsts Quote by Abdellatif Kechiche

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do,…

— Ethan Suplee

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and…

— Wanda Sykes

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

— Mel Gibson

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old…

— Brian Helgeland

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of…

— Isabelle Huppert

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

— Charlie Brooker

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

— Jon Turteltaub

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

— Thomas Lennon

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

— Audrey Tautou

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

— Jared Harris

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My…

— Abi Morgan