Cinema Quote by Robert Mitchum

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

— Anushka Shetty

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about…

— Melanie Laurent

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state,…

— Steven Knight

As the director, you have it in your mind how you want the part done, how you want someone to do it, and so…

— Jonathan Krisel

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If…

— Kristin Davis

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'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

— Sam Shepard

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

— George Cukor

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their…

— Pauly Shore

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

— Daniel Espinosa

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

— Patricia Clarkson