Scripts Quotes · Page 10

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

— Natalie Dormer

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from…

— George Clooney

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

— Tara Strong

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines. Cause life is a movie that I've seen too many times

— Lil Wayne

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

— Pete Postlethwaite

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest

— Berenice Bejo

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

— Nina Arianda

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do…

— Christopher Walken

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it…

— Mark Twain

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the…

— Jason Segel

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most…

— Sasha Pieterse

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to…

— Howard Hawks

What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could…

— George Clooney

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to…

— Dito Montiel

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just…

— Neil Jordan

When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love…

— Ricky Gervais

I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in…

— Stan Lee

When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked…

— John August

That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping,…

— Jenna Coleman

I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires…

— Mos Def

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today,…

— Donna Douglas

The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same.…

— Howard Shore

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it…

— Sylvester Stallone

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

— Curtis Hanson

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

— Paula Wagner

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

— Michael Gerber

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to…

— Jessica Walter

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

— Michelle Dockery

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

— Cher

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

— Noam Chomsky

I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

— Maggie Carey

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

— Preity Zinta

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

— Sela Ward

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

— Lenny Kravitz

The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.

— Casey Wilson

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

— Elisha Cuthbert

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

— Gena Rowlands