Scripts Quotes · Page 92

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the…

— Oren Moverman

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do…

— Alice Englert

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and…

— Roger Deakins

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I go by my instinct in selecting scripts for my banner. Some times it works and some times it does not.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently…

— George R. R. Martin

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne]…

— Ellen Page

It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma &…

— Geena Davis

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the…

— Rian Johnson

Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . .…

— David Simon

Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy…

— Nina Jacobson

In so many roles I've played the outsider. As an outsider, you have more energy to succeed simply because you are an…

— David Suchet

I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part…

— Pawel Szajda

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired…

— Donald Sutherland

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most…

— Sasha Pieterse

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against…

— Toby Jones

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was…

— Rhys Darby

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were…

— Manuel Puig

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd…

— Kirk Douglas

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when…

— Merle Haggard

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,…

— Neil Jordan