About Quote by Michael Chabon

It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens…

— Tom Stoppard

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who…

— Jack Nicholson

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

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services…

— Cynthia Payne

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after…

— Jon Spaihts

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

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

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read…

— Anna Chlumsky

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal…

— Ellen Burstyn

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it…

— Don Bluth

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

— Ang Lee