Scripts Quotes · Page 19

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly…

— Alexa Chung

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

— Natascha McElhone

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

— Demian Bichir

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

— Soha Ali Khan

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a…

— Benicio Del Toro

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

— Emma Roberts

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

— Christopher Walken

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

— Michael Pitt

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity…

— Douglas Booth

I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine…

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't…

— Eric Bana

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent…

— Steve Burns

If I get good films, I would definitely do them. But most of the stuff that I get is not good at…

— Neeru Bajwa

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very…

— Barret Oliver

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that…

— Jeff Bridges

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the…

— Jacques Rivette

Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was…

— Shane Black

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make…

— Kerry Washington

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense…

— Toby Jones

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on…

— John Corbett

Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff,…

— Peter Jacobson

A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a…

— Matt Fraction

I didn't even think about it when I read the script and then shooting their movie and someone was like "boy, press…

— Ellen Page

It's all about good scripts and roles that count. The language barrier does not make any difference for me.

— Soha Ali Khan

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

— Colin Baker

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

— Angelina Jolie

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

— David Mamet

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

— Natalie Portman

At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

— Laura Dern

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

— Jodie Comer

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want…

— Lily Rabe

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

— Judd Apatow

In major studio scripts, the girls are very similar. They're all witty and hot. I'm more of an oddball.

— Riley Keough

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

— Joe Lando

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

— Steven Soderbergh

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

— Vikram Bhatt

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

— Judi Dench

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

— William H. Macy