Books Quote by Seth Grahame-Smith

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

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background…

— Juliet Asante

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill

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

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or…

— Larenz Tate

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from…

— Joel Grey

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the…

— Les Standiford

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

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

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

— Colm Meaney

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

— Brittany Snow