Scripts Quotes

965 quotes by 768 authors

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we… — Peter Farrelly
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it. — Julie London
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that… — John Schlesinger
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. — David Hackworth
My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would… — Kim Hunter
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story. — Aaron Stanford
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of… — Manuel Puig
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. — Max von Sydow
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty… — Arthur Miller
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away… — Larry Gelbart
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline.… — David E. Kelley
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane… — Christine Vachon
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its… — Scott Frank
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films… — Mike Leigh
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as… — Joe Shuster
I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I… — Shane Black
American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. — Shirley Henderson
On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be… — Billy Unger
I'd love to work on a script in collaboration. — Matthew McGrory
For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost. — Jessica Raine

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