Director Quote by Vijay Sethupathi

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

— Charlie Brooker

When I read a script I respond to it like an audience member. At the end of the film, if I'm there in the…

— Jisshu Sengupta

When I'm making a film, I only go by the script.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

— Tom Stoppard

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend…

— Tom Stoppard

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have.…

— Michael Angarano

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that…

— Richard Ayoade

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read…

— Jason Reitman

When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level…

— Lusia Strus

Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care…

— Jim Sturgess

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with…

— Katherine Helmond