Scripts Quotes · Page 20

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

— James Wolk

I get sent scripts regularly and they are badly written and insulting. The women I'm asked to play are one-dimensional.

— Amanda Redman

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

— John McTiernan

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

— Mark Batterson

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

— John Hurt

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

— Arjun Kapoor

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

— William H. Macy

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

— Al Pacino

I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie…

— Alex Pettyfer

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this…

— Shane West

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to…

— Jennifer Connelly

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts…

— Katie Holmes

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do…

— Peter Jackson

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that…

— Robert Schwentke

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script,…

— Action Bronson

So many people get deals, so many YouTubers get scripts and things made because they're constantly creating things on their own. Even…

— Charlyne Yi

It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get…

— George Lucas

Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go.…

— Valerie Thomas

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right…

— Taylor Swift

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the…

— Aidan Turner

For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved…

— Hugh Bonneville

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting…

— Matt Barr

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance.…

— Jackie Cooper

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition,…

— Wallace Shawn

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

— Mel Brooks

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

— Edie Falco

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

— Jenna Coleman

If I have a free day, sometimes I'm just reading scripts all day. They pile up.

— Julia Fox

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

— Raashi Khanna

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

— Amyra Dastur

I write all my scripts with Salman in mind. He understands me perfectly on the sets.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

— Jennifer Coolidge

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

— Douglas Booth

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

— Finn Wolfhard

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

— George Hamilton

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

— Alison Pill

When you have the top show your scripts have to be more than competitive. They should be the best.

— Lorne Greene

The approach I take in selecting a script is based on what I fancy from the the scripts I'm offered.

— Vijay Deverakonda