Scripts Quotes · Page 13

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

— Kirsten Dunst

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

— Casey Affleck

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

— Ben Affleck

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

— Steve Buscemi

I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.

— John Krasinski

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

— Aaron Stanford

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

— Kevin Nealon

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

— Jonny Lee Miller

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that…

— Esther Hicks

[Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I…

— Mark Strong

I have a ton of scripts sent to me. At the moment, Im frankly struggling to catch up. Im reading through all…

— Tom Hooper

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you…

— Eric Fellner

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain…

— Christian Slater

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise,…

— Vincent Cassel

In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script…

— Chadwick Boseman

A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them…

— Anton Corbijn

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those…

— Morgan Freeman

If you are known to do something well, people want to see you do that. But what you choose to do is…

— Vir Das

It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new…

— Cynthia Ozick

I was a little hippie on a world backpacking adventure, and suddenly I became a vampire princess. I still find it hard…

— Lucy Fry

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.…

— Ha Jin

I was sent this thing called 10 Things I Hate About You, which I thought was really sweet and female-centric and kind…

— David Krumholtz

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird...…

— Diablo Cody

Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How…

— David Lynch

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

— Robert Pattinson

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

— Avi Arad

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

— Kevin Bacon

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

— Brigid Brannagh

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

— James Purefoy

I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a…

— Mic Geronimo

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

— Dan Castellaneta

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

— Rasika Dugal

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

— Viggo Mortensen

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

— Rebecca Eaton

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

— Rachael Harris

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

— Evan Daugherty

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

— Dermot Mulroney

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

— John Boyega