American movie Quote by Jack Nicholson

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then…

— Mohanlal

I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical three-act system…

— Luca Guadagnino

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind…

— Charlie Kaufman

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Peter Webber

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

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

— Joel Kinnaman

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

— John Milius

I am here to act only in films with good script.

— Lara Dutta

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

— Mary Steenburgen

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

— Robert Rodriguez

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

— John Woo