Film Quote by Fred MacMurray

They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to do that…

— Toby Stephens

My first film by itself was very daunting and though I had offers, I didn't take them because I wasn't too sure.

— Neha Sharma

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one…

— Terry Zwigoff

In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and…

— Brian Helgeland

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at…

— George Lucas

I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I…

— Dustin Lance Black

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read…

— Robert Eggers

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me…

— Michael Chabon

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script…

— Curtis Hanson

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my…

— John Abraham