Scripts Quotes - Page 16

• Life is like a B-picture script.

  Kirk Douglas

  Life Is Like, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  Rachael Harris

  Stuff, Comedy, Dramatic

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

  Mike Leigh

  Class, Way, Wonder

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

  Frank Grillo

  Jobs, Character, Actors

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• I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.

  Frank Grillo

  Vision, Directors, Looks

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• You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Government, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.

  Damian Lewis

  Jobs, Trying, Actors

  "'Homeland' Damian Lewis, David Harewood Q&A". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 13, 2012.

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• It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

  Avi Arad

  Differences, World

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

  Garry Marshall

  Who I Am, Theatre, Done

  Source: deadline.com

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• In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.

  Paul Bettany

  Morning, Hangover, Coffee

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it's all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren't great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors.

  Paul Bettany

  Responsibility, Years, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.

  Paul Bettany

  Reading, Humanity, Levels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My mum reads every script before I go for it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mum

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• The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

  Ted McGinley

  Long, Firsts, Good Enough

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Marathon, Comic, Novel

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Fun, Smart, Writing

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

  Linus Roache

  Layers, Scene, Mining

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Care, Lure

  "‘Chappie’ Interviews: Weaver and Copley On Gangstas, Ghostbusters & More". Interview with Kofi Outlaw, screenrant.com. March 7, 2015.

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• It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting off of them and you have a good script, it just comes organically. It's just stored in your body. So that emotion will just be brought out of you, as opposed to trying to force it.

  Maria Bello

  Son, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."

  Colin Callender

  Thinking, Play, Hbo

  Source: deadline.com

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• Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much more exciting as a fan to me to watch the show as it's happening.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Character, Fans, Watches

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• We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

  Emmy Rossum

  Excited, Unpredictable, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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