Amount Quote by William H. Macy

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the…

— Mackenzie Davis

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I…

— Liana Liberato

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage…

— Al Pacino

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends…

— Al Pacino

On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so…

— Claire Danes

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

— Vaclav Havel

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going…

— Todd Solondz

I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.…

— Robert Evans

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

— Edgar Wright

Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.

— Taylor Louderman

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

— Ben Kingsley