Begins Quote by Holt McCallany

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

— Gaspar Noe

Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going…

— Michael Sheen

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

— Peter Webber

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a…

— Wong Kar-wai

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the…

— Frank Grillo

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can…

— James L. Brooks

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where…

— Jean Stapleton

When I'm making a film, I only go by the script.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

When I choose a script, I ensure that I get to contribute to the film in some way and, in turn, grow as an…

— Sai Pallavi

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'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