Scripts Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Black, Want

  "David Oyelowo On Acting, His Royal Roots And The One Role He Won't Take". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2015.

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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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• I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

  Jennifer Garner

  Love, Smart, Guy

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• I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

  Evan Daugherty

  Couple, Party, Writing

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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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• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  Om Puri

  Bollywood, Film, Copies

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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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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Reading, Character, Preparation

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Together, Kind

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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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• I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

  Erika Christensen

  Excited, My Family, Knows

  Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org.

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• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Snapshots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part.

  Harmony Korine

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Writing, Ideas, Computer

  Source: collider.com

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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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• When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Want, Ends, Notes

  "Exclusive Interview with Chris Pine and Alex Kurtzman about 'People Like Us'". Interview with Jason Roestel, www.axs.com. June 27, 2012.

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• When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Book, Character, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have a chart that I'm following or anything like that. I'm very much playing it by ear. Certain things just happen and it's undeniable, you just go that way. But I don't have a specific path I'm following, I'm just playing it by ear.

  Zac Efron

  Games, Ears, Way

  "Me & Orson Welles - Zac Efron interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Home, Long, People

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• You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

  Bruce Campbell

  Building, Made, Blueprints

  "WonderCon: Bruce Campbell Talks EVIL DEAD, Premiering at SXSW, His Planned Involvement in the Sequel, ARMY OF DARKNESS 2, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. March 31, 2013.

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