Scripts Quotes · Page 54

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

— William H. Macy

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who…

— Ellen Page

When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me…

— Kelli O'Hara

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want…

— Chris Henchy

Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations -…

— Seth Rogen

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments…

— Jennifer Aniston

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or…

— Harold Ramis

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

— Catherine Deneuve

The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book…

— Dave McKean

In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that…

— Marv Wolfman

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

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest

— Berenice Bejo

It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's…

— Alex Graves

A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a…

— Matt Fraction

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and…

— Kem Nunn

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

— Natascha McElhone

Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but…

— William Monahan

I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have…

— Jennifer Garner

My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new…

— Erica Schroeder

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

— Curtis Hanson

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,…

— Andy Rooney

I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,…

— Woody Allen

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're…

— Woody Allen

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

— Karen Allen

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him…

— Rae Dawn Chong

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

— Jay Sean

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

— Peter Hedges

I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't…

— Tionne Watkins

When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew…

— Julie Benz

I am here to act only in films with good script.

— Lara Dutta

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

— Andrea Arnold

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was…

— Dick Cavett

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people…

— Dick York

I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award…

— Bruce Vilanch

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or…

— Dane Cook

I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals…

— Colin Farrell

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not…

— Thomas Lennon