Script Quotes · Page 18

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what…

— Thomas Lennon

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

— William H. Macy

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

— Andy Garcia

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or…

— Steve Buscemi

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.

— William Monahan

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

— Sebastian Lelio

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere…

— Macaulay Culkin

Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to…

— Matt Haig

As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that.…

— Eve Myles

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of…

— Roger Ebert

In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't…

— Lester Persky

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were…

— Stephen Hopkins

Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you…

— Syd Field

I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have…

— Zac Efron

A great script might come my way, and I could be in the middle of music. So, it's a huge choice that…

— Christina Milian

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's…

— Lance Henriksen

The first time I read a script, I always read it as an audience as opposed to looking at it for a…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the…

— Nicholas Sparks

There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some…

— Joe Swanberg

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I…

— Matt Damon

I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main…

— Carly Schroeder

Worth' was a script that was sent to me, and I felt it was something different and important to do.

— Tony Todd

If there is a convincing script and role I'll surely be part of it.

— Jackky Bhagnani

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

— Tom Kenny

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

— Tony Scott

A lot of things matter in comedy - the script, the lines, your timing, the co-actor's timing, how it's shot.

— Jitendra Kumar

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

— Tony Scott

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

— Amanda Abbington

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

— Adam Brody

Mahakumbh' has a very unique concept and I was certain to take it up when I heard the script for the first…

— Gautam Rode

You might not make heaven if you cover your script during an exam...Sharing is caring!

— Anonymous

To be successful in Bollywood, you either need to be a superstar or have a super script.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

As soon as I saw the script for 'Moonlight Drawn By Clouds,' I thought it was fun, and I really wanted to…

— Park Bo-gum

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

— Kenneth Williams

I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

— James McAvoy

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

— Emmy Rossum

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

— James L. Brooks