Back Quote by Kathleen Kennedy

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

— William H. Macy

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

— Jason Statham

Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.

— Katie Dippold

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old…

— Brian Helgeland

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

— Shawn Wayans

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

— Jon Turteltaub

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

— Judd Apatow

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

— Laura Linney

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on…

— Joseph Kosinski

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

— Bruce Campbell

You can't just sit around waiting for a good script. You can wait forever.

— Leslie Uggams