Scripts Quotes · Page 67

Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading…

— Christopher Nolan

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first…

— Steve Martin

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

— Ewan McGregor

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the…

— Jared Leto

John Sullivan's scripts were always very funny, and cast and crew got on well.

— David Jason

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a…

— Park Chan-wook

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without…

— Mel Tillis

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to…

— Salma Hayek

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

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar…

— Michael York

I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then…

— Marjane Satrapi

I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only…

— David James Duncan

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like…

— Gene Wilder

I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After…

— Kajol

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the…

— Jim Rohn

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would…

— Alia Shawkat

Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing…

— Duane Swierczynski

I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site…

— Julie Benz

I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend…

— Robert Schwentke

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

— James Wolk

Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back…

— Katee Sackhoff

I choose films based on scripts.

— Pankaj Tripathi

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time…

— Jason Reitman

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is…

— David S. Goyer

I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's…

— Vladimir Putin