Scripts Quotes · Page 24

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who…

— Anita Loos

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and…

— Paul Greengrass

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on…

— Alice Lowe

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more…

— Zoe Kazan

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

— Derek Jarman

It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a…

— Eric Bana

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I…

— Alex Pettyfer

There came [a script called] “Dracula Sucks.” Now, I liked “Dracula Sucks,” but we gotta change [the title]. They said, “If you…

— George Hamilton

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

— Andrzej Wajda

We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's…

— Todd Farmer

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the…

— Matt Barr

Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the…

— Charles Krauthammer

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,…

— Ken Watanabe

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

— Emma Roberts

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5…

— Michael Arndt

So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was…

— Dan Mazer

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do…

— Christopher Nolan

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much…

— Helen Slater

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

— Christopher Walken

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when…

— Betty White

I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time."…

— Samuel Barnett

I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you…

— Zach Braff

What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta…

— Doug Sweetland

I always write the script by myself.

— Bong Joon-ho

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity…

— Rani Mukerji