Scripts Quotes · Page 48

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending…

— David E. Kelley

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of…

— Neil Gaiman

I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

— Anne Fletcher

When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with…

— Peter Capaldi

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as…

— Romola Garai

Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on…

— Nate Parker

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never…

— Carey Mulligan

I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought…

— Wilmer Valderrama

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny…

— Quentin Dupieux

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these…

— Terence Fisher

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

— Leslie Caron

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I…

— Tricia Helfer

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to…

— Steve Martin

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a…

— Jeremy Renner

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you…

— Jim Carrey

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar…

— Paul Schrader

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later…

— Alexandra Byrne

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

— Lauren Ash

What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of…

— Karla Souza

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to…

— Haile Gerima

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain…

— Bing Crosby

["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You…

— Hunter S. Thompson

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The…

— Kelly Macdonald

I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that's out there, now and…

— Todd Haynes

For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script.…

— Billy Campbell