Scripts Quotes · Page 18

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

— John Boyega

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

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

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

Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means…

— Gary Oldman

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100…

— Steven Zaillian

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when…

— Don DeLillo

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I…

— Penelope Cruz

I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on…

— Van Heflin

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I…

— John Noble

I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was…

— Billy Connolly

As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing.…

— Jen McGowan

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment…

— David Twohy

The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in…

— Viggo Mortensen

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on…

— Zachary Knighton

The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices.…

— Bruce Miller

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met…

— Doug Liman

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I…

— Tricia Helfer

Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

— Jennifer Lawrence

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

After 'Ishq Brandy,' I was either not getting good scripts or not good characters.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

— Kevin Richardson

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

— Claudia Christian

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

— Katt Williams

The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

— Harry Elfont

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

— Hrithik Roshan

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

— Robert Jenson

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

— Denis Norden

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

— Joe Manganiello

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

— Rae Dawn Chong

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make…

— Louis Garrel