Scripts Quotes · Page 15

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

— Maggie Carey

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

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

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she…

— Emily Blunt

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to…

— Preston Sturges

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material.…

— Jason Statham

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching…

— Aaron Spelling

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the…

— Lawrence Taylor

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very…

— Rhys Darby

I am fortunate that I get sent scripts and get to meet people I would never have met had I not done…

— Matthew Lewis

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

— Karen Allen

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

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

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

— John August

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

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

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time…

— Jason Reitman

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much…

— Dennis Muren

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

— Preity Zinta

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

— David Yates

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

— Colin Baker

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

— Jack Nicholson

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

— Walter Koenig

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

— Anurag Kashyap

Usually, I write my scripts first, then think of the actors, or I have a reference of someone.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd…

— Kirk Douglas

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

— Sidney Poitier

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

— Stephen Dorff

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather…

— Billy Boyd

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

— Bill Murray

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I have plenty of scripts and ideas and all that that are not horror films.

— Ti West

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman