Scripts Quotes · Page 62

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out…

— David Ayer

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And…

— James Spader

I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I've done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr.…

— Evan Daugherty

Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When…

— Stacey Snider

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to…

— Robert Carlyle

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

— Rita Moreno

I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in…

— Christian Bale

In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but…

— Gillian Anderson

How can I change me to suit the script?

— Michael Caine

Eric Roberts, for all the criticism he gets, is at least having fun with the script. His decision to devour large swaths…

— Phillip Sandifer

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My…

— Domhnall Gleeson

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

— Michael Arndt

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying…

— Richard Ayoade

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

— Tim Roth

It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them -…

— Eric Bana

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

— Sela Ward

I read a lot of scripts, but few of them stand out to me.

— Camila Morrone

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

— Michael Gerber

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you…

— Melissa McCarthy

I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs,…

— Aidan Turner

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young…

— Viola Davis

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have…

— Michel Hazanavicius