Character Quote by Karen Allen

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

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and…

— Duncan Jones

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have.…

— Michael Angarano

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character…

— Jeremy Renner

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out…

— Miranda Otto

Characterisation is more important to me than the script. A decent story and extraordinary characters can do wonders for a film, but you cannot…

— Arbaaz Khan

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends…

— Al Pacino

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but…

— Gary Oldman

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

— Kriti Sanon

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

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of…

— Freddie Highmore

I read the script first to get the perspective on the whole story, the writing, and how the character I'm auditioning for is talked…

— Jay Ellis