Scripts Quotes · Page 52

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as…

— David Duchovny

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

— Andy Hargreaves

It is a conscious choice to go for content-driven scripts because that is the key for any film to work. There are…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

— Walter Benjamin

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative…

— Gillian Flynn

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent…

— Alex North

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play…

— Al Pacino

It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious.…

— Danny Dyer

Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off…

— Justin Theroux

I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that…

— Taylor Schilling

I don't think that any scene [in Pineapple Express] is word for word how you'd find it in the script. Some of…

— Seth Rogen

So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found…

— Whit Stillman

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a…

— Tim Bevan

When you read the [Twilight series], it's like saying 'Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean every line is…

— Robert Pattinson

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my…

— Holt McCallany

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without…

— Gerard Way

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script…

— Laura Linney

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

— Andy Serkis

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing…

— Travis Fimmel

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think…

— Liam Hemsworth

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them…

— Marina Sirtis

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for…

— Teri Garr

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read…

— Clint Eastwood

I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you…

— Jeff Ross

I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for…

— Duncan Jones

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't get tons of scripts to be looking at and deciding on in terms of feature films; the industry has changed.…

— Joan Allen

Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from…

— DJ Spooky

I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main…

— Carly Schroeder

I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my…

— James Vance

I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100…

— Paul Dano

Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which…

— Curtis Hanson

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a…

— Tom Cruise

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

Because [Donald] Trump sticks to his script and was there to open his golf course, that's what he first began talking about.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts…

— Susan Sarandon

There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors…

— Haskell Wexler

In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes…

— Warwick Thornton

There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to…

— John Gallagher, Jr