Scripts Quotes - Page 12

• I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Fiction, World, Want

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• I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And I've never even met a Sookie in my life. Sookie on 'Gilmore Girls' was played by Melissa McCarthy. And Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, is number one on the call sheet on 'True Blood.' Somebody should write another script with a Sookie in it.

  Todd Lowe

  Girl, Writing, Blood

  "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

  George Michael

  Stupid, Writing, Done

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• Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.

  Antony Starr

  Flames, Giving, Feelings

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• I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Farce, Chance, Delta

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• I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

  Bill Murray

  Nice, Writing, Mean

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

  David Mamet

  Directors, Lists, Shots

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

  Hugo Weaving

  Appeals, Ifs

  "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.

  Corey Feldman

  Character, Creative, Firsts

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

  Kurt Fuller

  Way, Good Enough, Be Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

  David Mamet

  Materials

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

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• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If its a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  Rani Mukerji

  Moving, Home, Sacrifice

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• It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Two, People

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

  Idris Elba

  Actors, Used, Performances

  "Idris Elba Talks PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR 2, LUTHER Season 3, Preparing to Play Nelson Mandela and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Looks, Stories

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• I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

  Dougray Scott

  Maps, Wonderful, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.

  Toni Servillo

  Character, Two, Giving

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• The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

  Evan Daugherty

  Eight, White, People

  "Screenwriter Evan Daugherty Talks SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, the Film's Action-Adventure Style, and His TV Show AFTER THOUGHT". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 11, 2011.

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• A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Comedy, Originals

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• I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Plenty, Written

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

  Marc Forster

  Writing, Fiction, Lines

  "Bond Week Interview: Quantum of Solace Director Marc Forster". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. November 11, 2008.

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• When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

  Steven Zaillian

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

  Crispian Mills

  Home, Dvds, Brain

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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