I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
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'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
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I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy… — James Monroe Iglehart Copy Share Image
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![“I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.” quote by Daniel Kaluuya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e1/daniel-kaluuya-9154_constant_i-don-t-think-writing-stops-until-the-fi_1942086.jpg)
![“Seth [Rogen] had written a script with this guy, Evan [Goldberg], who none of us knew, and he was prepared to move to L.A. to try to get a script made. It had no title. I actually gave them the suggestion of naming it Superbad, which they did. I just thought it was a weird, interesting name for…” quote by David Krumholtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5e/david-krumholtz-7751_guy_seth-rogen-had-written-a-script-with-thi_759071.jpg)
![“I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the…” quote by James Monroe Iglehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/222/james-monroe-iglehart-31738_chad_i-do-enjoy-that-folks-howard-ashman-tim_1216525.jpg)
![“There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd…” quote by Melanie Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/906/melanie-lynskey-11682_battering_there-s-a-rhythm-to-script-in-i-don-t-fe_120254.jpg)
![“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was…” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/rudolf-buitendach-44228_felt_i-was-approached-by-the-filmmakers-i-did_550709.jpg)
![“I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great…” quote by Woody Harrelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/977/woody-harrelson-3830_acting_i-have-a-suspicion-because-if-you-look-a_2835600.jpg)