Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes. — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I notice that a little bit at The Office, with, like, an actor: If I decided there'd be a certain way in… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in… — Roberto Aguire Copy Share Image
It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like… — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might… — Rob Zombie 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
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not. When I read a… — Jessica Walter Copy Share Image
You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me… — Orson Welles 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
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
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
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
I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script… — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
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![“It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/rob-lowe-855_dean_it-was-a-role-dean-sanderson-i-hadn-t-se_3109455.jpg)
