Scripts Quotes - Page 13

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

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Perspective, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Mistake, Home

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• The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.

  Brian Regan

  Fun, Thinking, Comedian

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• I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

  Avril Lavigne

  Taken, Goal, Acting

  "Skulls, Plaid, and Glitter, Oh My! Avril Lavigne's Collection for Sally Hansen Is Rock & Roll Chic". Interview with Lindy Segal, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Reading, Worry, Cameras

  "‘Hunger Games’ Star Jennifer Lawrence Talks Playing Katniss Everdeen". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 12, 2012.

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• At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

  George Hickenlooper

  Creating, Documentaries, Foundation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

  David Heyman

  Independent, Skills, People

  "Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Talks Deathly Hallows, Tentpoles, Gravity". Interview with Anthony D'Alessandro, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2010.

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• If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

  Bill Murray

  Writing, Harder, Screenplays

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• Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Jobs, Actors, Pages

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

  Michael Eklund

  Jobs, Character, Tv Shows

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• When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

  Jonathan Demme

  Stories, Pages

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I was very sad to leave Harry Potter but equally there will be an element of excitement about the idea that a script might come in and I don't have to go: "I'm sorry, I'm kind of busy for the next four years." The idea of that is quite exciting.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Sorry, Years, Ideas

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• One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Block, Writing, Character

  "Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team.

  Christina Aguilera

  Team, Book, Doors

  MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

  Tom Kenny

  Actors, Driven, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Simple, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.

  Jake Schreier

  Robots, Shooting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Waiting, Way, Hard

  "Lenny Kravitz: The ‘Precious’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.

  James McAvoy

  Heart, Important, Quality

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• I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Looks, Likes

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• Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Might, Way, Sometimes

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• On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Team, Independent

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never get made. I don't know who is behind those decisions. It's like you just have to doodle something on a page about the underdog who finally gets the girl and the film gets made.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Believe, Decision

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Stylist Interview, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

  Emily Blunt

  Mean, Play, Skins

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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