Scripts Quotes - Page 18

• I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

  Alison Pill

  Character, Ideas, Stuff

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Sleep, Weekend

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

  Lily Rabe

  Thinking, Want, Panic

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

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Tvs, Freak

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

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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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• Life is like a B-picture script.

  Kirk Douglas

  Life Is Like, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

  Jason Blum

  Reading, Want, Judgment

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• I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Support, Being There, Enjoy

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Believe, Forget, Deals

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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 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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• I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

  Colin Cunningham

  Looks

  "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.

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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 start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Actors, Tailors

  "MovieWeb Gets Personal With The 40 Year Old Virgin Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. December 13, 2005.

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• I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!

  Bruce Willis

  Rip, Next Day, Vanity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• 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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• The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy, kooky real relationship slowly turns into something horrifying, but you get there through a filter of reality with all of it.

  Harry Treadaway

  Real, Perfect, Filters

  Source: collider.com

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• Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

  Roberto Giobbi

  Writing, Gestures, Clarity

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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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