Boards Quote by Charlie Brooker

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend…

— Tom Stoppard

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part…

— Sean Penn

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,'…

— Sally Hawkins

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written,…

— Shonda Rhimes

Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I've worked on so many films where the script is one thing and then, somewhere down the line - on set, sometimes - it…

— Rebecca Hall

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

— Holly Hunter

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old…

— Brian Helgeland

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about…

— Melanie Laurent

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state,…

— Steven Knight

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

— Anushka Shetty