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On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach…

— Marc Forster

We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan…

— Stan Laurel

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way -…

— Simon Pegg

I remember on 'Dr. Katz,' there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines.

— H. Jon Benjamin

We played around and improvised a ton [in The Hangover], and I think it's hard to say at this point what's what. Gosh, I…

— Ed Helms

I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to -…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find…

— Robert Downey, Jr

We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on the script…

— Anna Boden

Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and…

— Denis Leary

“I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned'…

— Harlan Ellison

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages…

— Lorene Scafaria

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were…

— Joe Swanberg