Script Quotes · Page 21

“What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

When I'm making a film, I only go by the script.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

— Jerry Weintraub

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Amit Kalantri

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and…

— Peter Hedges

I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows.

— Penny Johnson Jerald

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

— Antonio Banderas

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

— Kendrick Lamar

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can…

— Robert Taylor

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

— Peggy Lipton

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are…

— Wadah Khanfar

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk,…

— Danny McBride

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

When we sign a film, we agree to be part of the script.

— Sana Khan

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

— Mariska Hargitay

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

— Debra Winger

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

— Urvashi Rautela

If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the…

— Melissa McBride

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow…

— Naomi Wolf

To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of…

— C. Thomas Howell

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

— Nicole Holofcener

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood,…

— Jess Walter

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

— Andy Wachowski