Asking Quote by Emma Donoghue

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

— Shawn Levy

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.

— R. Madhavan

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

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself,…

— Tom Cruise

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into…

— Peter Mullan

In our case, we have no script. So the only people we can work with are people who have been working with us in…

— Wong Kar-wai

Eventually, I think I may end up directing. It would have to be the project where I think that I'm the person to direct…

— James Van Der Beek

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

— Sam Shepard

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs…

— Tom Stoppard

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have…

— William H. Macy