It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to… — Jonas Akerlund Copy Share Image
I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them -… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When Sônia [Braga] talked about the script in detail, it was as if she had seen the film [Aquarius] last night, even… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them,… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?''… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick… — Heather Matarazzo Copy Share Image
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with… — Sadie Sink Copy Share Image
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the… — Melissa McBride Copy Share Image
To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar… — Alfons Adetuyi Copy Share Image
I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I have to tell you that we never had any scripts. Jean-Luc never wrote a script in his life. He would write… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be… — Peter Straughan Copy Share Image
It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script,… — Judy Davis Copy Share Image
Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so… — Jonathan Glazer Copy Share Image
I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s,… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
It's always so much fun to create backstory. Even if there are more clues in the script, you still always have to… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image