Contain Quote by Tom Stoppard

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

— Robert Ben Garant

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

There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the…

— Henry Cavill

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

— Melanie Lynskey

I've worked on so many films where the script is one thing and then, somewhere down the line - on set, sometimes - it…

— Rebecca Hall

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

— Greta Scacchi

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

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

— Simon Kinberg

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

— Audrey Tautou

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

— Katie Dippold

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

— Zoe Bell